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Stumbling on Happiness

Daniel Gilbert · 2006 · 310 pages

Recommended by 3 people on the record.

The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

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

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

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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.