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    <body><![CDATA[This is pretty much the opposite of a self-help book.  Instead of telling you how you can be happier, Harvard Psychology professor Gilbert talks about why we are so bad at predicting what will make us happy in the first place.  Gilbert is a smooth and entertaining writer, and he does a good job of e...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4078411">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Years ago there was a poster that appeared around Melbourne of a young man with one of those far away looks in his eyes.  The photo in the poster was extreme close up and the expression on the young man’s face was that which I believe only comes from religious ecstasy or a particularly transportin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47033178">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[We have brains that allow us to predict the future<br/>We predict the future based on past memories<br/><br/>BUT our past memories are falliable: we tend to fill in details in our memories - we remember things not as they actually happened, but as we think they happened when we think about them i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19978410">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I just finished Daniel Gilbert’s new book, and it’s highly recommended. Next time in Cambridge, I’ll be asking him to join me at Grafton Street for a Guinness (you’ll get this if you read the book).<br/><br/>He uses one of the most humorous and accessible non-fiction, science-related writi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7620446">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[April 2007, first impression: So far, this book is witty, eye-opening and really fun. Also really well researched. He references Daniel C. Dennett in the first five pages, so how could I not love it?<br/><br/>May 2007, upon completion: Update... <br/><br/>Ultimately, I decided to give this book ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/935248">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you are technical or scientific then &quot;Stumbling on Happiness&quot; may be a good read for you.  For me, Daniel Gilbert's conclusions were fascinating but most may be garnered by reading his articles or the last chapter of his book.  As Gilbert admits in his foreword, his book is not about ha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48306151">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;No one likes to be criticized, of course, but if the things we successfully strive for do not make our future selves happy, or if the things we unsuccessfully avoid do, then it seems reasonable (if somewhat ungracious) for them to cast a disparaging glance backward and wonder what the hell we ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29831346">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think this book should have been called Stumbling on Humility, cause what I took from it is that I'm not even as happy as I thought I was, and really, I didn't think I was <em>that</em> happy to begin with.  So, I get it, our perception is flawed.  Our ability to remember, perceive and predict is not well ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18589431">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The author Dan Gilbert, is a gifted teacher and professor of social psychology at Harvard. This book is an overview of his research on affective forecasting, which examines what and how people think about their own emotions.  This line of research began with the question of how accurate are people a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9801782">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The first important thing to note about this book is that it is not a self-help book. Rather, it's a beginner's look at how we perceive the world and how that translates into our perception of our own happiness, or lack thereof. In that light, it does its job well.<br/><br/>Gilbert is clearly a ma...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7179195">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Stumbling On Happiness and is my current rebellion book. (It isn't on my assigned reading list.) and it is a fascinating book. The author explores our perception of happiness and why we consistantly guess wrong about what will make us happy. How, once a moment has passed, it is impossible for the in...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5960249">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Combining the rigor of scientific inquiry with the affability of a humorist, this remarkable book examines the brain's systematic inability to reliably predict what will make us happy.  Gilbert shows how neurological structures that allow us to store and re-imagine information may serve us all too w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16044050">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Interesting book.  No it's not a self-help, although there's nothing wrong with self-help books...  Anyway, this is the science of why we can't find happiness as our present self for our future selves b/c we are unable to predict what our future selves will like.  Say we pack a lunch and we think it...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51345127">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Central message: our minds trick us the same way our eyes trick us with visual illusions.  And we are foolishly un-aware of the ways it tricks us.  The rest of the book is basically a list of psychology experiments backed up by pretty horrible long-winded prose to explain how that applies to our dai...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79300485">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Stumbling on Happiness is a book by Daniel Gilbert, a Harvard professor who has recently been much in the news for his work on affective forecasting. This is the study of predicting future emotional states, something that people do all the time. If you get a tattoo, you're betting that your future s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77246968">more...</a>]]></body>
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