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| A facinating read, "Struggling On Happiness" | Views: 470 |
| May 17, 2006 9:49 am | | A facinating read, "Struggling On Happiness" | # |
Terry Vermeylen | | I'm reading the book, "Struggling On Happiness" by a renowned Harvard teacher Daniel Gilbert and I love the way he thinks. It's different
He also uses dozens of studies to back him up
Basically he states that the biggest tool we have as a species is the ability to mentally transport ourselves into the future (use imagination) and ask ourselves how we feel there. That is what is called – searching for happiness. It is not an exact science. For example many people imagine that children will bring great happiness, but in the end they inflict much work on us with snippets of happiness here and there. And we become happier when they leave the nest.
Or that happiness is working hard in our economy, yet all the time spent accumulating great wealth and stuff actually takes us away from happiness.
Interesting.
Our imagination is deeply intertwined with our happiness and so much more powerful than we realize.
So when we perfom goal setting it's important to imagine how each goal will really make us feel in the future. It may just be spending morning time walking in the fresh air or taking a fabulous cruise. It's how we imagine these expriences will make us feel. And we should make sure we have all the facts straight when we do imagine.
We all have our definitions of happiness and some are happy with a cigar, some are happy with a kitten. When we use our imagination to project future happiness are we really being realisic? If not, we are setting ourselves up for failure.
Sometimes just a good walk will suffice.
Best
Terry
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| May 25, 2006 3:12 pm | | A facinating read, "Struggling On Happiness" | # |
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