Abi mentioned
Stumbling on Happiness several times
in his blog and Tabula Rasa recommended it one of the comments. I finally read mainly because the last five books I read did not mention Shakespeare and this one did. I found it excellent and see it more as a book on 'self deception as a survival mechanism' and how we can possibly stumble on to improve a bit. Here is
an interview with the authorand the book is much better than the interview.
'self-deception as a survival mechanism' -- that's a lovely turn of phrase!
ReplyDeleteTR,
ReplyDeleteOld age. I just put some markers to remember these a bit better. By the way, Tyler Cowen too seems to be seems to be talking about self deception in his "Discover your inner economist".
Check out Gilbert's TED lecture. It's a pretty good summary of the book.
ReplyDeleteThanks Abi. It is good but as TR said
ReplyDelete"- dan gilbert's recent book -- which i haven't read but he's a great researcher and he writes like a dream so it definitely should be worth the while."