Engineering Happiness : A New Approach for Building a Joyful Life
Overview
Manel Baucells and Rakesh Sarin have been conducting ground-breaking research on happiness for more than a decade, and in this book they distill their provocative findings into a lively, accessible guide for a wide audience of readers. Integrating their own research with the latest thinking in the behavioral and social sciences--including management science, psychology, and economics--they offer a new approach to the puzzle of happiness. Woven throughout with wisdom from the world's religions and literatures, Engineering Happiness has something to offer everyone--regardless of background, profession, or aspiration--who wants to better understand, control, and attain a more joyful life.
- Shows how a few major principles can explain how happiness works and why it is so elusive
- Demonstrates how the essence of attaining happiness is choice
- Explores how to avoid happiness traps
- Tells how to recognize happiness triggers in everyday life
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780520268210
- ISBN-10: 0520268210
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publish Date: March 2012
- Dimensions: 8.95 x 5.96 x 0.72 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.61 pounds
- Page Count: 248
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