Stumbling on Happiness
By Daniel Gilbert
Are we just too stupid to be happy? Psychologist Daniel Gilbert reveals some of the common mental mistakes that defeat our search for happiness.
Daniel Gilbert says we get in the way of our own happiness because we don’t understand how our mind works and the tricks it plays on us. The [...]
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Please take a pen and a sheet of paper: Go to the foot of a tree or to your writing desk, and make a list of all the things that can make you happy right now: the clouds in the sky, the flowers in the garden, the children playing, the fact that you have met [...]
When I’m teaching, people often ask me questions in hopes of hearing some esoteric truth. They seem to want me to tell them a secret. But the most fundamental secret I know is rooted in something that we already possess, basic goodness. In spite of the extreme hardship and cruelty we see happening throughout the [...]
