Happiness: The Science behind Your Smile (repost)
Daniel Nettle "Happiness: The Science behind Your Smile"
English | 2006-09-07 | ISBN: 0192805592 | PDF | 224 pages | 3 MB
English | 2006-09-07 | ISBN: 0192805592 | PDF | 224 pages | 3 MB
What exactly is happiness? Can we measure it? Why are some people happy and others not? And is there a drug that could eliminate all unhappiness? People all over the world, and throughout the ages, have thought about happiness, argued about its nature, and, most of all, desired it. But why do we have such a strong instinct to pursue happiness? And if happiness is good in itself, why haven't we simply evolved to be happier? Daniel Nettle uses the results of the latest psychological studies to ask what makes people happy and unhappy, what happiness really is, and to examine our urge to achieve it.