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Stumbling on Happiness

Daniel Gilbert · 2006 · 310 pages

Recommended by 4 people on the record.

The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 7d is days, 4yr is years.

Laurie Santos recommends it
Understanding our impact bias won’t make it go away, but it can still be helpful—say, by giving you the confidence to take more risks.

on newyorker.com · 19 Mar 2025 · Report

Jonathan Haidt loved it
The Gilbert book is just so much fun to read. He's one of the funniest people, certainly in psychology – he's just endlessly witty, and reading it is like strapping yourself into a roller coaster.

on fivebooks.com · 27 Jul 2010 · Report

Derek Sivers loved it
Not at all new-agey, as the title might suggest. Harvard professor of psychology has studied happiness for years, and shares factual findings that will change the way you look at the world.

on sive.rs · 11 Jul 2007 · Report

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.