{"id":205,"date":"2007-05-22T15:58:37","date_gmt":"2007-05-22T22:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/archives\/2007\/05\/22\/stumbling-on-happiness\/"},"modified":"2007-05-22T17:29:36","modified_gmt":"2007-05-23T00:29:36","slug":"stumbling-on-happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/2007\/05\/stumbling-on-happiness\/","title":{"rendered":"Stumbling on Happiness"},"content":{"rendered":"

Daniel Gil\u00adber\u00adt\u2019s Stum\u00adbling on Hap\u00adpi\u00adness<\/a><\/cite> is rightly pop\u00adu\u00adlar (I had to wait some time before it became avail\u00adable at the loc\u00adal lib\u00adrary). Des\u00adpite the title, it\u2019s not one of these \u201csev\u00aden steps to real hap\u00adpi\u00adness\u201d books. It\u2019s more a book that tells you why people\u2019s expect\u00ada\u00adtions of what will or should make them happy are often mis\u00adplaced. Lots of inter\u00adest\u00ading bits of inform\u00ada\u00adtion about how the mind works, and what it does and does\u00adn\u2019t do, which explained a lot to me. A couple of examples: why is it that when you take a photo of some\u00adthing, and then try to remem\u00adber it, all you get is a men\u00adtal image of the photo you took? Why is it that the end\u00ading of a movie has a lar\u00adger effect on what you think about the movie than a ran\u00addom piece in the middle? All fas\u00adcin\u00adat\u00ading stuff and well worth read\u00ading if you want to under\u00adstand why people do some of the things they do and think the way they do.<\/p>\n

Which is not to say I don\u2019t have quibbles with the book, I do, but those are minor. And mostly in the last chapter, where I won\u00adder wheth\u00ader some of the sur\u00adveys he quotes would have had dif\u00adfer\u00adent res\u00adults had they been car\u00adried out in oth\u00ader coun\u00adtries or oth\u00ader cultures. <\/p>\n

In all, I recom\u00admend read\u00ading this book if you\u2019re at all inter\u00adested in what makes people tick. Wheth\u00ader you agree with all the points he makes or not, it cer\u00adtainly will make you think about your own beha\u00adviour, and give you explan\u00ada\u00adtions for oth\u00aders\u2019 beha\u00adviour that you may not have come up with otherwise. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Daniel Gil\u00adber\u00adt\u2019s Stum\u00adbling on Hap\u00adpi\u00adness is rightly pop\u00adu\u00adlar (I had to wait some time before it became avail\u00adable at the loc\u00adal lib\u00adrary). Des\u00adpite the title, it\u2019s not one of these \u201csev\u00aden steps to real hap\u00adpi\u00adness\u201d books. It\u2019s more a book that tells you why people\u2019s expect\u00ada\u00adtions of what will or should make them happy are \u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201cStum\u00adbling on Happiness\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}