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Happy Ever After
A Radical New Approach to Living Well
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What if the path to happiness meant abandoning our most dearly held beliefs?
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What if the path to happiness meant abandoning our most dearly held beliefs?
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 wealth of evidence to bust the common myths about our sources of happiness and shows that there can be many unexpected paths to lasting happiness. 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.
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Happy Ever After by Paul Dolan is praised for challenging societal notions of happiness and questioning conventional life choices. The book is noted for its smart, engaging, and humorous approach, urging readers to reconsider their desires and aspirations. Critics describe it as a manifesto for a better society that provides a compelling argument for prioritising individual well-being in policy-making. The work is considered illuminating and wise, offering a fresh perspective on happiness and societal expectations.
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ISBN: 9780141984490
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 02 January 2020
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 15.0mm
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 191g
Pages: 256
About the Author
Paul Dolan is Professor of Behavioural Science at the LSE. He is an internationally renowned expert in human behaviour and happiness. Amongst various other roles, he wrote the questions that are being used to monitor national happiness in the UK and has advised many governments, charities and corporations on how to influence behaviour to improve wellbeing. His debut book, Happiness by Design, was a Sunday Times bestseller and dubbed 'the book that will make you quit your job'.
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