Ευτυχία: Η επιστήμη πίσω από το χαμόγελο σας

by Daniel Nettle

Η ευτυχία είναι μια πεταλούδα, που όσο την κυνηγάς, βρίσκεται πάντα ένα βήμα μπροστά, αλλά αν καθίσεις κάτω ακίνητος, μπορεί να έρθει να σταθεί ανάλαφρα πάνω σου.
Nathaniel Hawthorn

Τι είναι η ευτυχία; Τι μας κάνει ευτυχισμένους; Γιατί πασχίζουμε για την ευτυχία; Και πώς θα μπορέσουμε να την επιτύχουμε;
Ο Daniel Nettle εξερευνά την προέλευση και το στόχο της αναζήτησης της ευτυχίας και χρησιμοποιεί τα αποτελέσματα πρόσφατων ψυχολογικών ερευνών για να δείξει ότι ο Hawthorn είχε, πιθανότητα δίκιο.

Genres: Psychology, Nonfiction, Science, Self Help, Philosophy, Personal Development

205 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 7, 2005

Reviews

[Das Anjos · Rating 4 out of 5]

"One of the most reliable findings in studies of well being is that people who are married score more highly than those who are not. [...] Those cohabiting were a little less happy than the married ones, with those who had never married coming in third."

A very interesting and easy to read book on happiness research, well structured, but maybe too focused on WEIRD (white, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic) countries.

[Realini Ionescu · Rating 5 out of 5]

Happiness: The Science behind your smile by Daniel Nettle

This is an excellent Book…

I have to repeat this: wonderful, excellent, life-changing book! Together with The Science of Happiness and perhaps Flourish, this is a book which can change your life. I hope it is already changing mine. By applying some of the Facts, Discoveries of Positive Psychology listed in the book, I may reach Bliss, Tranquility, and Nirvana.



My guess is that I will write in installments, because I have placed so many bookmarks in this fabulous book that every other page seems to have a bookmark and I intend to write here, in my “review „of the book, most if not all the principles, advice that I have underlined because this may improve my Happiness level and, why not, perhaps yours.



One happy thought: creating a “happy „club, or /and blog maybe even a party. All these would promote the rules, principles, secrets of happiness





Studies show that positive emotional tone is related to Better physical and mental health...677

What matters is what one has relative to what everyone else has got for life satisfaction…731

Marriage results in an increase in happiness…for two years…after which the hike melts away…807

It seems as if there is a set level of happiness to which we return more or less whatever we do…837

Lack of autonomy leads to unhappiness…income and material goods are quickly and completely adapted to…844

We are satisfied with our income or the size of our car in comparison with the incomes and cars around us…850

We evolved a psychology of looking at those around us who seemed to be doing best and trying to do even better…855

Health, autonomy, social embededness and the quality of the environment are real sources of happiness the one who will give up the rat race will probably be happier…865

Some people are cheerful and buoyant almost whatever bad things happen to them, whilst some are full of worry and anguish even in the best of circumstances...896

Happiness or unhappiness stem from how we address what happens in the world, not what actually happens…905

Neurotics are unhappy in general

Income at 25 is a good predictor of income at 55

Happiness stems not from the world itself, but from the way people address the world …1103

It is easier to change yourself...if you change yourself, the external world will follow suit 1106

there are techniques for neurotics

The Soma from Brave New World…1123

is serotonin the path to happiness?

There is a separation between wanting and liking…we will not be necessarily happy when we get something we want 1227

We often work hard for things that do not increase either pleasure or happiness; we act like addicts…1260

Neuroticism and depression are associated with poor physical health...1340

Unhappiness, anxiety and depression engage the stress system, leading to suppression of the immune system…therefore negative long term consequences …1346

Crooks on the market: change your underwear; change your life…1388

Three changes:

1. reduce the impact of negative emotion

2. increase positive emotion

3. change the subject…

excess of Fear, worry, sadness, anger, guilt, shame-is one of the most potent causes of unhappiness… 1417

negative emotions are more urgent and capture consciousness …1427

negative emotion were designed to cope with emergencies and go off…constant fear and worry makes us hostile, paranoid, less attractive and less open to good things..1447

Pleasant Activity Training –determines which activities are pleasant and do them more often

All the evidence suggests you would be happier not caring about your promotion

The more important people believe financial success is, the more dissatisfied they are 1493

People could be preoccupied with wanting things that they forget to do things they enjoy

People’s behavior is driven by desire

We can intervene to affect happiness: changing the subject. The Hedonic paradox: by pursuing happiness itself, one makes it more distant

Ask yourself if you are happy and you cease to be…1517

The more complex a person is, the less his happiness swings: if he is many things, setbacks in one area will be offset by the other facets …1533

Regular meditators have reduced negative emotion, stress, increase well being and immune responses

Meditation has a positive effect on well-being…1540

Writing regularly about one’s experiences has beneficial effects on well-being and health, immune function. Writing has healing effects, whether experiences are negative or positive. We become more mindful, we take distance, replicating the effects of meditation

The more importance people place on money, the less satisfied they are with their income. One way to change the subject would be to give up on desires and wants that cannot be fulfilled.

In Buddhism, happiness depends on the mind, not on external trappings- the joke: a man gives the Dalai Lama a nice box, when the Dalai Lama opens it to find it empty, He says: “exactly what I wanted”

Happiness is relative to what others around are getting

People adapt quickly to positive changes and return to the previous level of happiness

Pleasure is triggered by love, sex, esteem, food

We want to do some things because our most successful ancestors wanted them

Evolution hasn’t set us up for the attainment of happiness, merely its pursuit

we would attain more enjoyment by trading income for TIME

Society is driven by wanting instead of Liking





I’d like to note the books recommended for further reading: Daniel Kahneman, Ed Diener and Norbert Schwarz (eds), Well-being: The foundations of hedonic psychology



David Lykken’s Happiness (New York: Golden Books 1999)



Michael Argyle’s The psychology of happiness



Peter Whybrow’s A mood apart: A thinker’s guide to emotion and its disorders



Robert Sapolsky Why zebras don’t get ulcers



Ziyad Marar’s The happiness paradox (London: Reaktion Books 2003).



happiness, http://www.eur.nl/fsw/research/happiness



Sources of joy: Scherer, Summerfield and Wallbott

[Dana · Rating 3 out of 5]

The beginning of the book was a little slow. However, I'm glad I stuck with it for the last few chapters. I found the science intriguing and I had a few "ah-ha" moments. I borrowed this book from the library (I don't think I want to add this one to my collection), so I will include some of my favorite quotes here...

"What we actually do when we try to consider how happy we are, have been, or will be, is something much cruder than the objective summary of level one experiences. We make a kind of best guess, or subjective estimate of our subjective experience. The guess is biased by things like the peak-end rule, our current mood, the standard of comparison we are making, and our failure to predict our own adaptation. This means we may end up with an inaccurate pictures of the net effects of our behavior on our happiness, and choose things that don't in fact make us happier...the purpose of the happiness program me in the human mind is not to increase human happiness; it is to keep us striving."

"Personal control is a much better predictor of happiness than income is. The importance of personal control becomes particularly clear when individuals who are in the bottom quartile of the national income distribution but nonetheless have a high personal control score are compared to those who are in the highest quartile of income but have a low personal control score....It seems that being at the top of the social heap only makes you happy in as much as it gives you the opportunity to control your life. If you can find alternative ways of being in control of your life, then you can be just as happy even if your income is low."

"Participants in an ongoing social survey of a cross-section of the American population were asked to go down a list of the major consumer goods that people invest their money in (house, car, television, travel, swimming pool, second home, and so on). The first time, they were asked to tick off which of those goods formed part of their ideal of the good life (the life they would like to have). They were then asked to go down the list again and tick off which of the items they actually had already. The survey was repeated sixteen years later. Over the early part of their adult lives, people go from having few if any of these big-ticket items to having several of them. The trouble is that their ideal of what would be needed for the good life recedes at almost exactly the same rate as they advance. When they are young, a house, car and TV seem enough. Later on, a holiday home comes to seem just essential. Over the 16 years, people went from having 1.7 to having 3.1 items, and meanwhile the good life went from consisting of 4.4 items to consisting of 5.6 items. They were still 2 items short of where they wanted to be, just as they had been at the beginning."

"...It is clear that people do not always make choices that maximize their happiness. For one thing, the well-being I might receive from choosing something depends on what everyone else chooses...Even more importantly, our choices in life are driven not by our actual experience of happiness, but by our implicit theory of happiness. This theory tends to say that positional goods and status are important, that the rat race is worth running, that a beautiful wife will change my life, and so on. This theory is not derived from experience and departs significantly from reality. Thus we are always prone to being tricked by it into making choices that do not maximize happiness."

"In fact, extroverts do tend to be happier...extroverts have more positive emotions, but can have just as much negative emotions as anyone else. If it is any consolation, the cheery socialite can have moments of existential dread and pain just like anyone else. I think the most likely explanation for the greater happiness of extroverts is that they are more likely to do things with a strong emotional reward. At any given point in time, your extrovert is more likely to be married, more likely to have been to a party, more likely to have been playing sports, more likely to have talked to friends, and has had sex more recently, than your introvert friend. His personality leads him to draw a series of moments of reward from the environment. Thus when you ask him, he is differentially likely to be in a positive affective state. People who rate their happiness as unusually high are low-neuroticism extroverts who spent little time alone. Thus, at the moment of asking, they are more likely to have just come from some social interaction or other."

"It turns out that high neuroticism scorers simply have more bad things happen to them. Their financial affairs and their social relationship are unsettlingly likely to go belly-up. Extroverts, on the other hand, are more likely to experience changes for the better in may life domains...High neuroticism scorers tend to exaggerate negative events, and are also differentially likely to remember the negative aspects of things. Thus, faced with assessing whether a life event like "serious argument with children" or "continuous financial worry" has happened to them over the last two years, they could be likely to conclude that it had even though their objective satiation is no worse than anyone else's...the occurrence of these objective events is related to neuroticism and extroversion and rather consistent over time. Some people just keep having catastrophes, and others always land buttered-side up...Neuroticism is a predictor of vulnerability to depression, as well as many forms of physical ill health, so the life events involving health will obviously be related to it. Health has knock-on consequences in the career domain, and probably in family life too. Depression, in particular, can be very damaging in social and marital relationships, and it leads to poor decisions of all kinds. High neuroticism scorers will often end up reaping the consequences of decisions made when depressed...As we have seen, neuroticism is the strongest single predictor of unhappiness. High neuroticism scorers will always be vulnerable to negative thoughts and feelings. That they cannot change. However, they are techniques in which they can train themselves that seem to have quite a marked effect on how they deal with this vulnerability, which can make a great deal of difference to their being in the world."

"Linville has found that the more complex a person's self-image is, the less their happiness in life swings up and down when they do well or badly at something. The reason is very clear; if I am just an academic, and I have an academic setback, then my whole self seems less efficacious and worthwhile. However, if I have many other facets to myself, then the effect of the setback on my identity is much less severe. Linville's studies show that self-complexity helps avoid symptoms of depression when a person is under stress. Similarly, people who belong to community organizations, do voluntary work, and have rich social connections are healthier and happier than those who do not."

"If there were a machine that offered all desirable experiences on demand, it is not clear that we would want to use it. The basis of many gratifications is precisely the challenge required to obtain them, and short-cutting this removes their appeal. Thus, paradoxically, in order to have the possibility of deep gratification, we need to admit the possibility of failure and frustration into our lives. It is necessary to have the possibility of unhappiness for happiness to have any meaning."

Other things I want to remember that are helpful include: meditation/mindfulness, CBT, the difference between extroverts/introverts, neuroticism, diversified life to handle set-backs better, and we will all have a baseline for happiness that we all return to after a positive or negative event (marriage is the longest happiness boost and will take about 2 years to return to a baseline happiness that you had before marriage).

[Julia · Rating 5 out of 5]

“Happiness: The Science behind Your Smile” by Daniel Nettle is short and sweet; the book uniquely explores the underpinning of happiness through a personality psychology-dominant lens. Nettle also strings in psychiatry, philosophy, economics, sociology, and other fields to examine cultural differences surrounding the notion of happiness. The myth of money possibly buying you happiness is dispelled in this book. Unlike most positive psychology books, Nettle doesn’t regurgitate basic information. Figures were sparsely used but effective at summarizing and communicating key points. His superimposition of personality psychology on positive psychology, using how an individual’s level of Openness, Conscientiousness, Extroversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism influences one’s perceived happiness and subjective well-being, was also eye-opening. Towards the end of the book, I appreciated his 3-step advice to increase one’s happiness level: 

1. Reduce the impact of negative emotion.

2. increase positive emotion

3. Change the subject. 


The book is a great read for anyone, as mental health is a critical component of anyone’s life, and it never hurts to learn how to improve your mood! 

[Sandra · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesantan poglen na pojam “Sreća” koja u nekim jezicima (kao što je i srpski) ima dvojako značenje 🙂

[Galicius · Rating 4 out of 5]

The first chapter “Comfort and Joy” takes a serious look at happiness. It tries to identify and describe where it is among human emotions which are universal and recognized by different people. Natives of Papua New Guinea can tell what kind of an emotion is shown in a photograph of an American face. More than 3000 studies have appeared on the study of happiness (hedonics) since 1960. Origins of the interest in happiness go to Aristotle. Jeremy Bentham’s well-known eighteenth century interest in “greatest happiness for the greatest number” phrase is actually borrowed from Francis Hutcherson. The Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan is perhaps living up to the Shangri La ideal of Shangri-La with a guiding philosophy and goal of the country should be “Gross National Happiness” not GNP.

Nettle describes three levels of happiness in our lives but the book will deal only with the first two:

1. momentary feeling of joy and pleasure
2. well being and satisfaction
3. fulfilling one’s potential

Nettle says “people believe they will be more happy in the future than they are now, but in fact seldom are…people are consistently wrong about the impact of future life events on their happiness”. (p.15)

The Positive Psychology movement of the last several years takes a different approach from traditional psychology’s interest in disorders like depression, anxiety, addictions, and more serious problems. It attempts to describe a state of “flow” or total absorption in an activity that an individual is devoted to and has the still that gives more satisfaction than passive entertainment. (p27)

Chapter 2 “Bread and Circus” talks about studies done during the past 50 years that surveyed peoples’ opinions of how happy they are in life bring back results predominantly that they are above average on the happiness scale. The Swiss and Scandinavians are top, Americans near the top, and Bulgarians, Russians, and East Europeans near a 5 or 6 scale (out of 10).

Why then do we have so many happiness pessimists among the great names from Freud to Wittgenstein and Sartre? Nettles states outright that intellectuals are highly neurotic.

Studying different personality types shows that happiness comes from how people address the world and from the world itself. It’s easier and cheaper to change yourself than to change all you external circumstances. (P 113)
Personality types from neurotic to extroverted to introverted weight heavily on emotions. Wanting something is a whole lot different than liking it once you have it. Nicotine brings far too little pleasure to justify the strong wanting of it. Smoking is not something enjoyable yet a smoker is duped into thinking it is.

Nettle says that practicing religion, meditation, doing cognitive behavioral therapy, and writing all have beneficial effects on well-being. The therapeutic effect of writing on us is by making us aware of our thoughts and feelings which allows us to distance ourselves from these thoughts.

An excess of negative emotions like fear, worry, sadness, anger, guilt, shame that we’ve inherited from our ancestral world where physical danger was more real, there was high mortality, causes our present unhappiness. People lived in small social groups then so shame and ostracism were more important.

A gene (5HTT), which regulates serotonin levels in the brain, was identified. It has two forms, long and short. People with two short copies score higher on neuroticism than people with at least one long form of the gene. People who are more neurotic are less happy. Are we determined genetically by chemical reactions how happy we are?

The last forty years has seen growth of materialism, which bred discontent and depression. In the 1950’s social scientists predicted that by the turn of the century people would be working 16 hours a week. But the drive to want things drove people to work more not less. What for? To acquire more material goods which did nothing to increase happiness.

[Tiff · Rating 5 out of 5]

So I've got some bad news.

You're not meant to be happy.

Daniel Nettle's Happiness outlines some harsh truths: We're not meant to be happy, we're meant to strive to be happy. We will always want what others have, even though finally attaining these things might not make us happy. "Liking" something and "wanting" something require two very different brain processes. Some of us are predisposed toward neuroticism, and there's not much we can do about it. And once we finally obtain something that makes us happy, we adapt to it within months and just end up fixated on wanting something else.

There are biological and evolutionary reasons for this, of course. An organism that is forever satisfied won't be as motivated to survive and reproduce as one that is competitive and forever striving for something more. Nettle expands on this basic premise in clear and engaging prose, sprinkling just the right amount of examples throughout to aid with understanding. One of my favourites is the life/dinner problem, which enlightens readers on why humans tend to concentrate more on negative affect than positive events. To paraphrase:

A lion is chasing a gazelle for meat. The gazelle's survival mechanism--fear--should ensure that it can run until it dies, as this is what would happen anyway if the lion were to catch it. The lion, however, will not run itself to death because there is always the possibility that another meal will come its way. Therefore, while it should still be motivated by the knowledge of reward, it doesn't make any sense for it to kill itself for one gazelle when another might come along. For survival purposes, the gazelle must be more motivated by its negative circumstance than the lion is for reward. And this is why it is perfectly natural for humans to focus more on negative stimuli; it makes sense for survival.

Happiness is a short book, and some of its conclusions might appear less than revolutionary. But it forces the reader to change her perspective on what may be within her control, and this is what makes Happiness an important read for anyone wishing to gain some basic knowledge of psychology. And while some of Nettle's conclusions may seem ominous when listed, the book is still upbeat in that it outlines the few ways in which we can control our own happiness levels, while stressing that any slight diminishing in negativity is still important and possible.

I look forward to reading more of Nettle's books, including his follow-up to Happiness, Personality.

[Dani Levine · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is an excellent, concise review of the science of happiness. My main take-away points:

1) Good and bad things happen to everyone. Happiness stems not from our life events but from how we respond to them. Unfortunately, much of how we respond to events in our daily lives is predicted by (and predicated on) genetics -- Have a neurotic personality? You're more vulnerable to seeing the negative side of things. An extrovert? No need to even open this book, because you naturally seek out the the things that will keep a smile on your face. The good news is that even though these tendencies have a biological basis and are not often changed, they are capable of being changed, and the power to do so is in no one's hands but your own.

2) What we think will make us happy really will not. "If I could just get this promotion...", "If I could just afford that car..." or "If I could just be happier...". We are driven to obtain what we do not have. We want more and more relative to what we have now, yet, what makes us happy is living and engaging in the now (without those extra somethings we may long for).

3) A happy life is a complex life. If you define your life only by your career, then a mistake at work will feel like a mistake at life. Don't shortchange yourself: you are everything you do.

[Joanne Schneider · Rating 3 out of 5]

I had to read this book for my freshman seminar, coincidentally called "Happiness". It isn't a page turner by any means, but this book actually changed the way I think about myself/my happiness/what gets me going/brings me down. Good for every 20-something year old who thinks they can't get out of their quarter life "what do i want/how do i get it" crisis in a non-gushy, non-self-help-book format.

[Gary · Rating 5 out of 5]

Recently, there has been a rash of happiness books- these things often come in waves. I've read a bunch of them, and this slim volume is the best. Don't judge it by its perky cover, or its glib, over-simplfied subtitle. This is clear, lucid science which is easily understood and, unlike most research, useful and applicable to the average person.

[Nhi Hexe · Rating 5 out of 5]

I feel like I against the world when reading this book. It is opposite with self-help book. It included science and psychology. Learned a lot from this. After all, Happiness is just a word that human cannot define itself. Because we think too much about our future which is not exist at this very moment.

[Robert Day · Rating 3 out of 5]

Kind of makes sense but isn't very satisfying or memorable. Conclusion is (something like) happiness isn't achievable (because of the way evolution works). So you should either be satisfied by what you have (unless your unhappiness is pathological) or should try for something else instead, like be a fine, upstanding member of your community.

[Carlos · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is not your typical "self help" book where someone pretends to reveal (and sell) "the secret" of happiness to you. This book instead provides a realistic and scientific view on what happines is and why we are so obsessed about it. It is thus far more helpful than any self-help literature on the matter. One of my five best reads in 2020.

[Rob · Rating 3 out of 5]

(6/10) Perfectly acceptable pop-science book. Falls into some of the pitfalls of evo-psych, but mostly stays away from it. Nothing really remarkable here.

[Alfred Lotho · Rating 4 out of 5]

I don't usually like books that is very research-based because they take away the power of the story-telling style but I find this book different. On top of sharing interesting studies about a wide variety of topics such as effects of drugs/hormones on stress-related behavior, consistency and validity of self-reported happiness, overestimation of sadness we feel from negative life events and the happiness we would feel from getting material wants, the author also presents some opinions and delivers some personal touch through referencing modern material such as the novels Brave New World, Hitchhiker's Guide and ideas from philosophers such as Wittgenstein. It was a very short read but I couldn't believe that a lot has been covered in a very organized way. The only reason I am giving it 4 out of 5 is that the conclusion part was too generic; it would have been good if there was a personal touch from the author, as in specifying how he does it in his own life so that we as readers could at least relate to him as a person rather than just "someone who summarized several researches into a book".

[Hoai Nguyen · Rating 3 out of 5]

"Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which, if you sit down quietly, may alight upon you." (Nathaniel Hawthorne)

I came across this book in the school library. Considering the published date (2005), it does not bring as much to me as expected, as many findings have been exploited continuously in self-help arenas.
A short summary of main points:
- Happiness in term of income and material goods is relative to what others are getting.
- The majority of people sees themselves as happy, but not 100%, and believe that they can be happier in the future. This motivates them to pursue happiness extensively.
- People are easily adapted to new surroundings, as happiness will eventually be normalized to normal states.
However, I still appreciate how the book presented ideas with elucidating graphs and studies. Most self-help books cherry-pick the relevant data, but not this one. Anyways, it's a short book with cute cover and easy-to-grasp writing, so there is no regret :)

[Brooklyn Robins]

I loved reading this book. I feel like in todays society, it can be easy to get caught up in your surroundings and it seems hard to feel satisfied and happy with your present circumstances. This book highlights the three levels happiness. It clearly and credibly identifies the science behind happiness using many scientific studies proving their points. I like that this book makes happiness achievable for everyone. I also liked that this book was a quick read and written easy to comprehend. I feel that the advice is applicable for all stages of life. The book, however, did feel slightly repetitive continually reproving the same points, and I would have liked to have read about different findings.

[Ana Andrade · Rating 3 out of 5]

I think it is a good book, but I found it quite complicated to follow. I didn't like the way he conected chapters within each other, using phrases like "I will explain further in the following chapter" a lot. Also, he refers to different books and stories as if everybody knew them (I didn't so I couldn't fully get the analogies)

Nevertheless, the content of this book is very interesting even though at some point it got me feeling a bit hopeless with my life happiness, but the conclussions given in the last chapter makes a good summary overall to understand the missconception of happiness and how we will never be able to achieve it, without meaning that we are designed to live an unhappy and miserable life.

[Kristian · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'm on another of my "what makes people tick" jags. As in Personality, Nettle explains how we are programmed by evolution for biological fitness, which may or may not serve us as well in the modern, developed world as it did our hunter-gatherer ancestors. It turns out that evolution favors always striving for something out of reach and becoming accustomed to it when we get it, so we strive anew. And the loss of community, increased alienation, and globalism of modern society deprive us of sources of happiness that used to be common. At least now, learning about our inclinations may free us from them to some degree, allowing us more satisfaction and contentment.

[Shellie Kelly · Rating 4 out of 5]

My daughter had to read this for a college class and gave it to me since I work in the mental health field. I really enjoyed the book and was happy to learn a few things. Happiness is something everyone wants, right???

[Harpreet Duggal · Rating 4 out of 5]

A balanced view of scientific studies on happiness as a psychological construct in a lay person’s language.

[Respectable · Rating 5 out of 5]

An easy recommendation to anyone who is concerned with living the good life.

[Suzanne Mather · Rating 5 out of 5]

I needed this at a low time! It really helped!

[Irene Money · Rating 2 out of 5]

skimmed!

[Ethan Lowe · Rating 4 out of 5]

Even mildly good books about happiness can be pretty valuable

[Vasilios Kats · Rating 4 out of 5]

4,5*

[Robbyn Schwartz · Rating 4 out of 5]

It is a cute little book, emphasis on little, but it is full of very interesting information!

[Amy · Rating 4 out of 5]

I like this author's approach in both books I've read. Interesting perspectives and "science".

[Vics · Rating 5 out of 5]

Really accessible and very intersting read about the psychology of happiness

[Suzie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Listening to Happiness by Daniel Nettle included in my audible subscription.

1. Comfort and Joy
2. Bread and Circuses
3. Love and Work
4. Worriers and Enthusiasm
5. Wanting and Liking
6. Panaceas and Placebos
7. A design for Living