People spend a great deal of effort, energy, and resources to make themselves happy in the future: for decades they take out mortgages dreaming of having their own home, take loans with predatory interest rates for the comfort of a renovated house, and build a career by burning themselves out at work, so that someday they can earn all the benefits of life. But in the pursuit of the future, we forget that happiness can—and must—be created in the present.
In her remarkable and witty book, which has become a real guide for tens of thousands of people around the world, Harvard psychologist Daniel Gilbert explains why our predictions about our own future happiness don’t match reality. Relying on theories and evidence from psychology, cognitive neuroscience, philosophy, and behavioral economics, the author shows us that happiness needs to be created right now!