Why are we happy?

[NinaBrooke]

Hi All,
Lovely video:

http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_gilbert..._we_happy.html

Dan Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness, challenges the idea that we’ll be miserable if we don’t get what we want. Our "psychological immune system" lets us feel truly happy even when things don’t go as planned.

Harvard psychologist Dan Gilbert says our beliefs about what will make us happy are often wrong -- a premise he supports with intriguing research, and explains in his accessible and unexpectedly

[gnadfly]

My recommendation: Viktor Frankl's "Man's Search For Meaning."

[NinaBrooke]

Originally Posted by gnadfly

My recommendation: Viktor Frankl's "Man's Search For Meaning."

Love it, read it. :-).Holocaust survivor. Great spirit

[WTF]

Stumbling on Happiness is a great book...one I suggest you recommend to Bebe La Strange. There is a chapter in there that might be pertinent to her situtation if my memory serves me correctly.