Daniel Gilbert Audio & Video

Smart, witty, accessible, and laugh-out-loud funny, "Stumbling on Happiness" brilliantly describes all that science has to reveal about the uniquely human ability to envision the future, and how likely people are to enjoy it when they get there.

Dan Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness, challenges the idea that we’ll be miserable if we don’t get what we want.

Is happiness a skill? Modern neuroscientific research and the wisdom of ancient contemplative traditions converge in suggesting that happiness is the product of skills that can be enhanced through training...

If you ask people does money buy happiness, they all get very high-minded and say, well, of course not and they begin to preach to you about love, meaning and other things.

The History of Happiness according to Sissela Bok, Darrin McMahon, and Daniel Gilbert.