I’m glad I’ve read Stumbling on Happiness, by Daniel Gilbert. Gilbert writes in an entertaining style that must keep his Harvard students rapt. And the book’s concise summaries of studies into human contentedness are surprising and fascinating material. What I conclude from this book is that happiness is neither complicated nor a pursuit.
It is a rather long detailed trip to arrive at Dr. Gilbert’s conclusion that happiness is not what we think it is. In summary, his interpretation of psychological experimentation into human satisfaction:
