Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Faults in the texture of existence

Abi mentioned Stumbling on Happiness several times in his blog and Tabula Rasa recommended it one of the comments. I finally read mainly because the last five books I read did not mention Shakespeare and this one did. I found it excellent and see it more as a book on 'self deception as a survival mechanism' and how we can possibly stumble on to improve a bit. Here is an interview with the authorand the book is much better than the interview.

4 comments:

Tabula Rasa said...

'self-deception as a survival mechanism' -- that's a lovely turn of phrase!

gaddeswarup said...

TR,
Old age. I just put some markers to remember these a bit better. By the way, Tyler Cowen too seems to be seems to be talking about self deception in his "Discover your inner economist".

Abi said...

Check out Gilbert's TED lecture. It's a pretty good summary of the book.

gaddeswarup said...

Thanks Abi. It is good but as TR said
"- dan gilbert's recent book -- which i haven't read but he's a great researcher and he writes like a dream so it definitely should be worth the while."