Engineering Happiness: A New Approach for Building a Joyful Life - Softcover

Baucells, Manel; Sarin, Rakesh

 
9780520268210: Engineering Happiness: A New Approach for Building a Joyful Life
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0520268210 ISBN 13: 9780520268210
Verlag: University of California Press, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

Manel Baucells and Rakesh Sarin have been conducting ground-breaking research on happiness for more than a decade, and in this book they distill their provocative findings into a lively, accessible guide for a wide audience of readers. Integrating their own research with the latest thinking in the behavioral and social sciences - including management science, psychology, and economics - they offer a new approach to the puzzle of happiness. Woven throughout with wisdom from the world's religions and literatures, "Engineering Happiness" has something to offer everyone - regardless of background, profession, or aspiration - who wants to better understand, control, and attain a more joyful life. It shows how a few major principles can explain how happiness works and why it is so elusive. It demonstrates how the essence of attaining happiness is choice. It explores how to avoid happiness traps. It tells how to recognize happiness triggers in everyday life.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Manel Baucells is Professor of Business and Economics at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. Rakesh Sarin is Paine Professor of Management at the Anderson School of Management at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Aus dem Klappentext

"This book is for anyone seeking to become happier. It provides a thoughtful, reasoned approach to improving one s happiness based on fundamental scientific research and case review. The authors unique approach clarifies how individuals can, in essence, decide to be happy. They provide practical steps that are easy to follow and should result in a happier you." Ralph L. Keeney, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University

"This book contains wisdom from many sources: findings in the social sciences, systematic ways of organizing useful concepts, memorable anecdotes, insights from different cultures and, most of all, good common sense. Reading this illuminating book is a first good choice. A second is to follow its recommendations to be happier. Bravo!" Robin Hogarth, author of Educating Intuition

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Verlag
University of California Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2012
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0520268210
ISBN 13 
9780520268210
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
246
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