Happy Ever After
  • Published: 17 January 2019
  • ISBN: 9780141989433
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $19.99

Happy Ever After

Escaping The Myth of The Perfect Life

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31 Mar 2020
EBook
3 Jan 2019
Audiobook
17 Jan 2019
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What if education, success, marriage, kids and health weren't the answers to happiness we're sold? What if you could find your own path?

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Happy Ever After written and read by Paul Dolan.

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.
  • Published: 17 January 2019
  • ISBN: 9780141989433
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $19.99
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Paul Dolan

Paul Dolan is an internationally renowned expert on happiness, behaviour, and public policy. He is currently a Professor of Behavioural Science at the London School of Economics. He has been a visiting research scholar at Princeton University, where he worked closely with Daniel Kahneman. Among various other roles, he is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences Panel on measuring national well-being, a member of the National Wellbeing Advisory Forum for the Office for National Statistics in the UK, and is Chief Academic Advisor to the UK Government on how policymakers should value the impact of goods that are hard to measure, like health.

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