People spend a lot of effort, energy and resources to make themselves happy in the future: they enter into mortgages for decades, dreaming of their own housing, take out loans at extortionate interest for the comfort of a renovated house, make a career, straining themselves at work in order to someday earn for all the blessings of life. But in the pursuit of the future, we forget that we can and should be happy in the present. In his wonderful and witty book, which has become a real guide to action for tens of thousands of people around the world, renowned Harvard psychologist Daniel Gilbert talks about why our predictions about our own happiness in the future do not match reality. Based on theories and facts from psychology, cognitive neuroscience, philosophy and behavioral economics, the author proves to us that happiness must be created in the present!
