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Imprint: Penguin
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Published: 02/01/2020
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ISBN: 9780141984490
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Length: 256 Pages
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RRP: £9.99
Be ambitious; find everlasting love; look after your health ... There are countless stories about how we ought to live our lives. These narratives can make our lives easier, and they might sometimes make us happier too. But they can also trap us and those around us.
In Happy Ever After, bestselling happiness expert Professor Paul Dolan draws on a wealth of evidence to bust the common myths about our sources of happiness and shows that there can be many unexpected paths to lasting happiness. Some of these might involve not going into higher education, choosing not to marry, rewarding acts rooted in self-interest and caring a little less about living forever.
By freeing ourselves from the myth of the perfect life, we might each find a life worth living.
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Imprint: Penguin
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Published: 02/01/2020
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ISBN: 9780141984490
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Length: 256 Pages
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RRP: £9.99
Reviews
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A passionate, provocative book. . . a manifesto for a better society
The Times
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One of the most rigorous articulations of the new mood of acceptance. . . a persuasive demolition of many of our cultural stories about how we ought to live
Oliver Burkeman, Guardian
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A star
Daniel Kahneman
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If only every Englishman could be so free of class-based self-consciousness!
Standpoint
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A very useful antidote to the pressures of modern living. Very few books change the way you think about yourself, but this is one of them. I would particularly recommend it to young adults with all these life choices ahead of them.
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