Stumbling on Happiness: An insightful neuroscience self-help psychology book on cognitive enhancement and human behavior

by Daniel Todd Gilbert

wealth increases human happiness when it lifts people out of abject poverty and into the middle class but that it does little to increase happiness thereafter.

Economists explain that wealth has ‘declining marginal utility’, which is a fancy way of saying that it hurts to be hungry, cold, sick, tired and scared, but once you’ve bought your way out of these burdens, the rest of your money is an increasingly useless pile of paper.10

My friends tell me that I have a tendency to point out problems without offering solutions, but they never tell me what I should do about it. In