malamarvoncat's review against another edition
3.0
Interesting notions about filling in memories and what makes us happy. I am not sure what I expected from this book, but I didn't get it anyway :)
stevegriff1983's review against another edition
funny
lighthearted
relaxing
medium-paced
4.0
Stumbling on Happiness is pretty good. Some interesting points mixed in with humor, lots of jokes...LOTS. but overall I enjoyed it.
homs_dream's review against another edition
3.0
يعجبني في كتب الاقتصاد السلوكي أنها تصدم الفهم العام والسياق المتعارف عليه للأشياء التي آمنا بها طويلاً وبطريقة علمية ومسلية.
وهذا الكتاب منها
وهذا الكتاب منها
chilmark's review against another edition
3.0
It was an interesting read, though not what I expected. After his hysterical stint on Colbert, I thought the book would be a lot more funny.
It starts off great, but he spends much of the book convincing you of how humans tends to make bad decisions. It is interesting how poor we are at acurately calculating future feelings, and how we tend to rewrite past history. But I was hoping that he would spend more time on the statistical studies showing what, in fact, makes people happy.
It starts off great, but he spends much of the book convincing you of how humans tends to make bad decisions. It is interesting how poor we are at acurately calculating future feelings, and how we tend to rewrite past history. But I was hoping that he would spend more time on the statistical studies showing what, in fact, makes people happy.
jrk's review against another edition
5.0
This was the first time I read about the psychology of choice. After listening to Dan's TED talk, I was interested in reading his latest book. Dan focuses on what it means to understand & remember our experiences, how those experiences influence us now, and that we really can't know what our future self will want. I recommend this book to anyone who's interested in human choice.
rossbm's review against another edition
3.0
(read as physical book)
This was a decent psychology book, but I am kind of tired of pop psychology books. A lot of extrapolation from studies and a few ideas that are really expounded on. At least this one wasn't too self helpy. The main insight is that people are bad are predicting what will make them happy because they leave out details when imagining their future states/lives, they tend to take their current emotional experience and confuse it with the future (e.g. not wanting to buy any groceries for the coming week because you just ate a big meal), and when people reflect on how they felt in the past they mixup how they think they should have/would have felt rather than how they actually felt at the time.
This was a decent psychology book, but I am kind of tired of pop psychology books. A lot of extrapolation from studies and a few ideas that are really expounded on. At least this one wasn't too self helpy. The main insight is that people are bad are predicting what will make them happy because they leave out details when imagining their future states/lives, they tend to take their current emotional experience and confuse it with the future (e.g. not wanting to buy any groceries for the coming week because you just ate a big meal), and when people reflect on how they felt in the past they mixup how they think they should have/would have felt rather than how they actually felt at the time.