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Carregando... Happiness by Design: Finding Pleasure and Purpose in Everyday Life (edição: 1713)de Paul Dolan (Autor)
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Dolan provides the practical capstone to all of the latest happiness research. Despite the classical debate between meaning and hedonism, people can actually derive happiness from both purpose and pleasure. The relative importance of these depends also on the person, so it's helpful to get intentional and aware about it. Much of happiness is driven by what we choose to focus on. Maximizing happiness is a function of deciding, designing, and doing happiness. A mixture of self-help and popular science, this is an engaging read, not least because Dolan comes across as extremely likeable (in spite of confessing to not having read a novel since he was at school!). Dolan pithily defines happiness as "experiences of pleasure and purpose over time" and sets out to help the reader maximise and find their optimum balance of those two things. Key to this is allocating your attention wisely and not falling into the trap of mistaken desires, projections and beliefs. Early on, he makes a distinction between his definition of happiness and that which features in life satisfaction surveys, the former being concerned with the "film" of your life as opposed to the "snapshot", with life as it is experienced rather than as it is evaluated. For instance, someone who has a prestigious job of which they are proud may enjoy the fact of holding that job while not at all enjoying the everyday reality of it. The inclusion of purpose as a factor of happiness is also interesting: apparently men experience more pleasure over time than women, but with purposeful activities taken into account, women experience greater happiness. This makes me feel better about some of those useful, necessary, but not particularly fun tasks I spend time doing! This is a quick read and I found myself instantly applying some of the ideas to my life, to good effect. It's also helped me banish certain negative and unhelpful thoughts about work/my employment status that tend to intrude from time to time. However, as what I've read starts to fade from my memory, I can tell that this is a book I will need to return to at regular intervals. Recommended. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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"Pretty much all the advice about happiness we have heard revolves around one basic assumption: that we can think ourselves happier. But in HAPPINESS BY DESIGN, behavior and happiness expert Paul Dolan reveals that the key to being happy does not lie in changing how we think--it's changing what we do"-- Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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He defines happiness as ' experiences of pleasure and purpose over time'; with his primary idea being that purpose is itself a feeling. To get a higher level of happiness, you would need to get the balance pleasure and purpose just right. Most people take little pleasure in work, but do find it has a purpose, whereas TV can be pleasurable, but is rarely purposeful. The activities that people considered made them most happy were time spent with others and and working as a volunteer.
It did make for interesting reading, and he does expand his (and Daniel Kahneman's) ideas into a readable book. But overall it does feel a little two dimensional, and doesn't seem to have a huge amount of depth. Shame really, because i think that the principles he outlines are along the right lines. ( )