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Happy Ever After: A Radical New Approach to Living Well Paperback – 31 Mar 2020

by Paul Dolan (Author)

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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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Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: Penguin Press; 1 edition (31 March 2020)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 014198449X
ISBN-13: 978-0141984490
Product Dimensions: 12.9 x 19.8 cm
Boxed-product Weight: 367 g
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Smart, engaging and funny. . . will make you question everything you think you know about what you want (Caroline Criado Perez, author of Invisible Women)

Passionate, provocative. . . a manifesto for a better society (The Times)

One of the most rigorous articulations of the new mood of acceptance. . . a persuasive demolition of many of our cultural stories about how we ought to live (Oliver Burkeman Guardian)

A very useful antidote to the pressures of modern living. Very few books change the way you think about yourself, but this is one of them. I would particularly recommend it to young adults with all these life choices ahead of them (Tablet)

Paul Dolan knows what makes people happy - and what doesn't. Happy Ever After is illuminating, wise, profound. A magnificent achievement (Cass Sunstein, co-author of Nudge)

A smart and irreverent look at the bad advice, lame instructions, and missing ingredients in society's recipe for a happy life (Daniel Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness)

A splendid demonstration of how conventional aspirations can make us miserable (Richard Layard, author of Happiness)

A timely warning that we need to question standard assumptions about what is good for individuals and society. Dolan makes a compelling case for putting people's own perceptions of their wellbeing at the heart of policy making (Lord Gus O’Donnell, former Cabinet Secretary)

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What if the path to happiness meant abandoning our most dearly held beliefs?

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bulent

Happiness in Theory

23 February 2019 - Published on Amazon.com

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The writer tries to formulate a personal subjective and discrete process called happiness in that book I think he should be thanked for his sincere observations It is a good read

10 people found this helpful

Anon

Very thought provoking

28 June 2019 - Published on Amazon.com

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Very interesting book that looks at classic narratives about human life and explains why they are false. Really thought provoking and provided good advice on how to live your life differently to what you're conventionally told. Really recommend this book if you want to think about living your life differently and getting more fulfillment from life.

4 people found this helpful

The Simply Luxurious Life

Insightful and a wonderful wake-up call to live consciously

23 September 2019 - Published on Amazon.com

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Living consciously asks of us to think for ourselves, and, as Dolan points out, if we do so and our way of thinking goes against the narrative traps society has perpetuated, it can be difficult. However, he provides ample research on a variety of topics as to why society would be beneficial for more of its citizens if we questioned the narrative traps we live by. Well done and thank you for sharing with us all.

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Pete Nikolai

negligence, incompetence, or malfeasance

8 June 2019 - Published on Amazon.com

Google "new book says married women are miserable" for information on author's negligence, incompetence, or malfeasance. Author seems to twist more than one study to support his agenda.

12 people found this helpful

Hande Z

Joy to the world

22 November 2019 - Published on Amazon.com

It is really difficult to control our happiness because happiness is a state of mind that we cannot will ourselves into or rationalise it to achieve it. So what’s the point of this book – or any book that purports to show us the way to happiness? This book by Paul Dolan is not a self-help book , but one that helps us understand what goes on in our minds so far as our desires and ambitions are concerned, and to know why we are happy. One can suppose that the fact that the knowledge that one is happy for the right reasons might bring a small glow of self-satisfaction, which, in turn, adds to the aggregate of the happiness we feel.

In discussing what makes us glow, Dolan delves into subjects like altruism, and he disagrees with the conventional view that a person who donates to charity anonymously is better than one who donates and then tells all about it. In other words, the impact of the gift is far more important than the motive of the giver

How do we draw a connecting thread to all the topics Dolan discusses in this book? Some are based on statistics – such as the claim (based on statistics) that parents of daughters are more likely to divorce. His account of happiness also visits our state of health, given the modern trend, we are more likely to die in hospital in light of the trend towards medicalization.

This book covers seemingly disparate areas in the quest to understand how happiness can be managed.