Harvard psychologist Dan Gilbert says our beliefs about what will make us happy are often wrong -- a premise he supports with intriguing research, and explains in his accessible and unexpectedly funny book, Stumbling on Happiness.
This is an important research topic since it has implications for the nature of the politics that we chose or don't chose. It impacts on the spouse we chose or don't...on the religious choices we make or don't.
It impacts just about any human topic of importance. His research points to the reason why so many remain unhappy despite the freedom to chose, and what the circumstances have to be to make us happy: some of us may not like this latter info.
Access the 22 min. lecture given in 2004 at the TED Conference of Ideas here.
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