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 Get to the point already Nov 16, 2009
I get what the book is about. However, I found that if I were back at college and he were a professor, that he would be one whom I'd classify as "Likes to hear himself talk". I found that he digressed from his points way to many times in the book, or would list off examples that took up almost an entire paragraph, vice one or two followed by a succint "etc.". This caused me frustration, and often i would scan through this to get ahead just to see what the point was he was driving at. Overall, the book is just okay. Not very in depth, and doesn't really resolve anything.
 The exploration of happiness Nov 05, 2009
If you are looking for an in-depth exploration of humanities involvement with happiness, this is a surprisingly broad resource. Mr. Gilbert's narrative style slips you through the normally dry research of the human physiological and psychological experience with entertaining ease. Let go of expectations to find happiness and enjoy the story of man's pursuit of that end.
Is it possible to have a single favorite book? Oct 26, 2009
Per the author's forward:
"Despite the third world of the title, this is not an instruction manual that will
tell you anything useful about how to be happy. Those books are located
in the self-help section two aisles over, and once you've bought one,
done everything it says to do, and found yourself miserable anyway,
you can always come back here to understand why. Instead, this is a book
that describes what science has to tell us about how and how well
the human brain can imagine its own future, and about how and how well
it can predict which of those futures it will most enjoy."
Got it?
Can he possibly be any more clear?
0 of 2 found the following review helpful:
 Mixed review Oct 22, 2009
Amazon showed the vendor as having my book but turns out they did not have it. They also sent me the wrong book in the mail by mistake. I did get my money back but would have preferred the actual book i ordered, Stumbling on Happiness.
Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all Sep 11, 2009
Written in a casual narrative style but packed with detailed research, Stumbling on Happiness helps us understand that we have a blind spot in how we image the future. One example is that in looking back at our lives, we regret inaction rather than incorrect action, but when our current selves image the future, in order to avoid regret we tend to sit pat with the hand we have rather than take a new one.
There is more to the book of course, and I have to warn you that as you read the first quarter of the book you may wonder where Gilbert is going, but once he gets there, the book turns into a series of revelations about what we leave out when estimating our future happiness and why our imagined happiness is not really around the corner.
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