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Happy ever after : escaping the myth of the perfect life / Paul Dolan.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Description: xviii, 219 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780241284445
  • 0241284449
  • 9780241374955
  • 0241374952
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Contents:
Introduction -- Reaching. Wealthy ; Successful ; Educated ; Wrapping up Reaching -- Related. Married ; Monogamous ; Children ; Wrapping up Related -- Responsible. Altruistic ; Healthy ; Volitional ; Wrapping up Responsible -- Conclusion.
Summary: Get a good education, be successful, get married, have kids and look after your health. This is what we're told will make us happy. But what if these stories are doing more harm than good? In Happy Ever After, bestselling happiness expert Professor Paul Dolan draws on groundbreaking research and data to bust the common myths about happiness and show that the path to fulfillment is actually far more unexpected than we thought. With straight-talking wisdom, he invites us to reappraise our values, free our minds from the 'narrative traps' of conventional wisdom and write our own version of the good life, based on maximizing positive, meaningful experiences that can generate new social benefits - not least greater tolerance for different ways of life. Happiness isn't what you're told. It's what you do.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

'Smart, engaging and funny. It will make you question everything you think you know about what you want' Caroline Criado Perez, author of Invisible Women

Paul Dolan, the bestselling author of Happiness by Design , shows us how to escape the myth of perfection and find our own route to happiness.

Be ambitious; find everlasting love; look after your health ... There are countless stories about how we ought to live our lives. These narratives can make our lives easier, and they might sometimes make us happier too. But they can also trap us and those around us.

In Happy Ever After , bestselling happiness expert Professor Paul Dolan draws on a variety of studies ranging over wellbeing, inequality and discrimination to bust the common myths about our sources of happiness. He shows that there can be many unexpected paths to lasting fulfilment. Some of these might involve not going into higher education, choosing not to marry, rewarding acts rooted in self-interest and caring a little less about living forever.

By freeing ourselves from the myth of the perfect life, we might each find a life worth living.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction -- Reaching. Wealthy ; Successful ; Educated ; Wrapping up Reaching -- Related. Married ; Monogamous ; Children ; Wrapping up Related -- Responsible. Altruistic ; Healthy ; Volitional ; Wrapping up Responsible -- Conclusion.

Get a good education, be successful, get married, have kids and look after your health. This is what we're told will make us happy. But what if these stories are doing more harm than good? In Happy Ever After, bestselling happiness expert Professor Paul Dolan draws on groundbreaking research and data to bust the common myths about happiness and show that the path to fulfillment is actually far more unexpected than we thought. With straight-talking wisdom, he invites us to reappraise our values, free our minds from the 'narrative traps' of conventional wisdom and write our own version of the good life, based on maximizing positive, meaningful experiences that can generate new social benefits - not least greater tolerance for different ways of life. Happiness isn't what you're told. It's what you do.

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