Happiness by Design
Happiness by Design by Paul Dolan is a 2014 Personal Development book written by TED speaker Daniel Kahneman, paired here with the talk they gave.
The pairing
- Paired talk: "The riddle of experience vs. memory: Daniel Kahneman on TED.com" (2010), 7.4M views on TED.com
- Timing: Published 4 years after the talk.
- In the catalogue: The 3rd of 4 books by Daniel Kahneman on Books Worth Reading (1981–2021), by publication year.
- Edition: Unknown, 2014 · 256 pages
- Collections: Nobel Prize Winners
The paired TED talk
The riddle of experience vs. memory: Daniel Kahneman on TED.com (2010), the TED talk by Daniel Kahneman.
From the publisher
Pretty much all the advice about happiness we have heard revolves around one basic assumption: that we can think ourselves happier. But in HAPPINESS BY DESIGN, behavior and happiness expert Paul Dolan reveals that the key to being happy does not lie in changing how we think--it's changing what we do
Dolan combines the latest insights from economics and psychology to illustrate that in order to be happy we must behave happy. Using what Dolan calls deciding, designing, and doing, we can overcome the biases that make us miserable and redesign our environments to make it easier to experience happiness, fulfilment, and even health.