A review by rossbm
Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert

3.0

(read as physical book)
This was a decent psychology book, but I am kind of tired of pop psychology books. A lot of extrapolation from studies and a few ideas that are really expounded on. At least this one wasn't too self helpy. The main insight is that people are bad are predicting what will make them happy because they leave out details when imagining their future states/lives, they tend to take their current emotional experience and confuse it with the future (e.g. not wanting to buy any groceries for the coming week because you just ate a big meal), and when people reflect on how they felt in the past they mixup how they think they should have/would have felt rather than how they actually felt at the time.