Stumbling on Happiness is a funny and insightful exploration into why we’re such poor predictors of our own happiness.

In this award-winning book, social psychologist Daniel Gilbert examines the nature of happiness and explains why the keys to our contentment continue to elude us.

To Gilbert, the answer is society and our fundamentally flawed ability to imagine.

On one hand, society has ingrained that factors such as wealth can lead to happiness, when in truth, Gilbert argues, this is a false belief that does more to protect the economy.

Our brains also constantly fall victim to a wide range of biases and mental tricks.

For one, we think our projections of our future desires are more accurate than they are and often fail to see how present emotions can skew them.

《哈佛幸福課》是一本有趣又富有洞察力的書，它探索了我們為什麼無法準確預測自己的幸福。

在這本獲獎書籍中，社會心理學家Daniel Gilbert考察了幸福的本質，並解釋了我們為何無法找到能使我們滿足的關鍵。

對Gilbert來說，答案在於社會和我們有根本缺陷的想像力。

一方面，社會讓我們堅信財富等因素可以帶來幸福，但Gilbert認為，這實際上是一種錯誤的觀念，它更多是為了保護經濟。

另一方面，我們的大腦也經常成為各種偏見和心理詭計的受害者。

首先，我們認為自己對未來的情感預期比實際情況更加準確，而且常常看不到當前的情緒如何歪曲了這些預期。

下面是小說中一些關於藝術的名言。