內容簡介
內容簡介 暢銷書作者，也是研究快樂的專家，Paul Dolan博士透過新作告訴讀者，逃離完美的迷思，為我們自己找到通往快樂的道路。有雄心，找到永恆的愛，照看自己的健康…，有太多太多我們該如何過活的故事。這些描述能夠讓我們的日子過得輕鬆些，有時候也能讓我們快樂些，但是…它們也可能使我們和圍繞在我們身邊的人掉進陷阱中。在這本新書中，Paul Dolan描繪了關於幸福、不公、歧視等各種不同的研究，用來打破我們對於快樂泉源的普遍迷思。他告訴讀者，有諸多意想不到的路徑可以抵達最終的成就，其中有可能是：不追求較高的學歷，不選擇婚姻，自利的行為得到了報償，以及不太關心可以活多久。唯有從完美生活的迷思中解放自己，我們才有可能找到值得活著的生活。Paul Dolan, the bestselling author of Happiness by Design, shows us how to escape the myth of perfection and find our own route to happiness.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 variety of studies ranging over wellbeing, inequality and discrimination to bust the common myths about our sources of happiness. He shows that there can be many unexpected paths to lasting fulfilment. 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.
