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Dan Gilbert

Forget the stuff. Let’s just get happy.

May 13, 2009 by Colin Beavan Leave a Comment

A quote from a TED talk given by Dan Gilbert, the Harvard professor and author of Stumbling on Happiness: Natural happiness is what we get when we get what we wanted. Synthetic happiness is what we make when we don’t get what we wanted. In our society, we have a strong belief that synthetic happiness […]

Filed Under: Consumerism and Materialism, Environment, Happiness and Life Satisfaction, No Impact Man Tagged With: consumption, Dan Gilbert, environmentalism, happiness, Stumbling on Happiness

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