Happy Ever After

Escaping Narrative Traps on How to Live

Cover Art for 9780241284445, Happy Ever After by Paul Dolan
ISBN: 9780241284445
Publisher: Allen Lane
Published: 22 January, 2019
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Links Penguin AU

Get a good education, be successful, get married, have kids and look after your health. This is what we're told will make us happy. But what if these stories are doing more harm than good?In Happy Ever After, bestselling happiness expert Professor Paul Dolan draws on groundbreaking research and data to bust the common myths about happiness and show that the path to fulfilment is actually far more unexpected than we thought. With straight-talking wisdom, he invites us to reappraise our values, free our minds from the 'narrative traps' of conventional wisdom and write our own version of the good life, based on maximising positive, meaningful experiences that can generate new social benefits - not least greater tolerance for different ways of life.Happiness isn't what you're told. It's what you do.

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