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Happy Ever After: Escaping The Myth of The Perfect Life

Happy Ever After: Escaping The Myth of The Perfect Life

by PaulDolan (Author)

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    Hardcover 2019

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Synopsis

Be ambitious; find everlasting love; look after your health ... There are countless stories about how we ought to live our lives. These narratives can make our lives easier, and they might sometimes make us happier too. But they can also trap us and those around us. In Happy Ever After, bestselling happiness expert Professor Paul Dolan draws on a wealth of evidence to bust the common myths about our sources of happiness and shows that there can be many unexpected paths to lasting happiness. Some of these might involve not going into higher education, choosing not to marry, rewarding acts rooted in self-interest and caring a little less about living forever. By freeing ourselves from the myth of the perfect life, we might each find a life worth living.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 256
 Publisher: Allen Lane
Published: 17 Jan 2019
ISBN 10: 0241284449
ISBN 13: 9780241284445
Book Overview: What if education, success, marriage, kids and health weren't the answers to happiness we're sold? What if you could find your own path?

Media Reviews
A star -- Daniel Kahneman
[Praise for Happiness by Design] Few books change one's life; in 48 hours this has improved mine -- Jenni Russell * Sunday Times *
[Praise for Happiness by Design] Dolan is especially illuminating when it comes to bigger life-choices . . . His book is a powerful reminder not to get caught up in overthinking things, but to focus instead on maximising what actually delivers joy . . . and most of us would benefit from listening to him -- Oliver Burkeman * Guardian *
[Praise for Happiness by Design] Outstanding, cutting-edge, and profound -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb, bestselling author of The Black Swan and Skin in the Game
[Praise for Happiness by Design] The book that will make you quit your job * New Statesman *
Author Bio
Paul Dolan is Professor of Behavioural Science at the LSE. He is an internationally renowned expert in human behaviour and happiness. Amongst various other roles, he wrote the questions that are being used to monitor national happiness in the UK and has advised many governments, charities and corporations on how to influence behaviour to improve wellbeing. His debut book, Happiness by Design, was a Sunday Times bestseller and dubbed 'the book that will make you quit your job'.