Synthetic happiness
One person wins the lottery, the other becomes a paraplegic. A year later, surveys are conducted and they are found to be equally happy. Happiness -- our one true and constant desire.. what would you do if you knew that the one thing you've been chasing after all your life is within your power to manufacture?
Harvard psychologist Dan Gilbert says our beliefs about what will make us happy are often wrong -- a premise he supports with intriguing research, and explains in his accessible and unexpectedly funny book, Stumbling on Happiness.
