Stumbling on Happiness | 
panAdvertised as “witty“ and even “hilarious,“ and being compared to books by Malcolm Gladwell, I expected to be much more interested/fulfilled. I was practically bored to death. Gilbert isn't nearly as witty as he thinks himself, and he beats every idea/example to death. Bottom line: we're lousy at predicting what will make us happy and largely disinterested in choosing more wisely. [See more in comments.]
JoyBlue Almost every example I shared with my DH, DH said came from the research of Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman (and his research partner), which could be read in (the later-published) Thinking Fast and Slow. 5y
JoyBlue At the very end of the book, Gilbert suggests that, as we're so lousy at predicting our happy outcomes, we should ask someone who's *right now* going through what we're contemplating for the future. He says that we're hardly unique (as we all believe ourselves to be), so employing a surrogate and doing what they're doing now (assuming they report being happy with their results) is a much better way to predict our future happiness. 5y
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