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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: You are happiest when your daily activities feel both truly pleasant and purposeful.
Chapter 3: Happiness isn’t driven directly by what you do, but by what you attend to each day.
Chapter 4: Your behavior and attention are mostly driven by unconscious systems that make mistakes quite often.
Chapter 5: When pursuing goals meant to boost happiness, you often succumb to behavioral spillover in your life.
Chapter 6: You frequently misjudge your desires and goals, including their impact on happiness overall.
Chapter 7: To determine what makes you happy, heed immediate feedback from yourself and others as well.
Chapter 8: By harnessing unconscious mechanisms, you can shape your environment to guide attention toward behaviors that foster happiness and joyful everyday things.
Chapter 9: To feel happier, focus on what you’re doing and deliberately ignore distractions daily.
Description
Drawing from his own behavioral research and economist experience, Dolan explains how happiness arises and how we experience it in our everyday lives. He exposes some of the traps we fall into when trying to be happier and demonstrates some simple tools for adapting your environment to feel happier without having to radically change who you are and what you think.
Who Should Listen
- Anyone who wants to understand what happiness really is
- Anyone who is fed up with not reaching their goals
- Anyone who needs easier and faster solutions on how to feel better instantly