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2 de nov. de 2017 · In The Art of the Good Life, you'll find fifty-two intellectual shortcuts for wiser thinking and better decisions, at home and at work. They may not guarantee you a...
2 de nov. de 2017 · In The Art of the Good Life, you'll find fifty-two intellectual shortcuts for wiser thinking and better decisions, at home and at work. They may not guarantee you a...
- Rolf Dobelli
- Caroline Waight
- Hodder & Stoughton, 2017
1 de ene. de 2012 · THE ART OF THE GOOD LIFE is a toolkit designed for practical living. Here you'll find fifty-two happiness hacks - from guilt-free shunning of technology to gleefully paying your parking tickets - that are certain to optimize your happiness.
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- Mental Accounting – How to Turn A Loss Into A Win
- The Fine Art of Correction – Why We Overestimate Set-Up
- The Pledge – Inflexibility as A Stratagem
- Counterproductivity – Why Timesavers Are Often Timewasters
- The Ovarian Lottery – Why You Didn’T Earn Your Successes
- The Introspection Illusion – Take Feelings Seriously, Just Not Your Own
- The Authenticity Trap – Why You Need A Secretary of State
- The Five-Second No – Small Favors, Big Pitfalls
- The Focusing Illusion Why – You Wouldn’T Be Happier in The Caribbean
- Fuck-You Money – Saving Up Freedom
Living a good life has a lot to do with interpreting facts in a constructive way. The Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman calls this the peak-end rule: you remember the high point and the end point of your holiday, but the rest is forgotten. Precommitment, they call it in psychology: pay first, consume later.It’s a form of mental accounting that takes t...
The most common misunderstanding I encounter is that the good life is a stable state or condition. Wrong. The good life is only achieved through constant readjustment. Why are we so reluctant to correct and revise? Because we interpret every little piece of repair work as a flaw in the plan. Dwight Eisenhower said, “Plans are nothing. Planning is e...
When it comes to important issues, flexibility isn’t an advantage – it’s a trap. Use radical inflexibility to reach long-term goals that would be unrealizable if their behavior were more flexible. How so? Two reasons. 1. First: constantly having to make new decisions situation by situation saps your willpower. Decision fatigueis the technical term ...
Counterproductivity refers to the fact that while many technologies seem at first glance to be saving us time and money, this saving vanishes into thin air as soon as you do a full cost analysis. A basic rule of the good life is as follows: if it doesn’t genuinely contribute something, you can do without it. And that is doubly true for technology. ...
Six percent of all the people who have ever lived on Earth are alive at this moment. What proportion of your success would you ascribe to your own achievement? The logical answer is zero percent. Your successes are fundamentally based on things over which you have no control whatsoever.You haven’t really “earned” your achievements. Two consequences...
“The introspection of current conscious experience, far from being secure, nearly infallible, is faulty, untrustworthy, and misleading – not just possibly mistaken, but massively and pervasively. I don’t think it’s just me in the dark here, but most of us,” Stanford professor Eric Schwitzgebel Don’t make your emotions your compass. You won’t find t...
It’s safe to say you can have too much authenticity. We expect a certain degree of propriety, of manners, of self-control – of civilized misrepresentation. We don’t really know who we are. Our inner voice is anything but a reliable compass. It’s more like a hodgepodge of conflicting impulses. Authenticity has a role to play in a romantic relationsh...
Roman philosopher Seneca wrote: “All those who summon you to themselves, turn you away from your own self.” So give the five-second no a trial run. If you cannot say ‘Yes’ to something in five seconds, the answer is ‘No’. It’s one of the best rules of thumb for a good life.
“Nothing in life is as important as you think it is while you are thinking about it,” as Daniel Kahnemanexplains. The more narrowly we focus on a particular aspect of our lives, the greater its apparent influence. Overcoming the focusing illusion is key to achieving a good life. It will enable you to avoid many stupid decisions. When you compare th...
If you’re living in poverty, money plays a major role. Financial difficulties are sheer misery. Easterlin paradox: once basic needs have been met, incremental financial gain contributes nothing to happiness. Wealth is relative, not absolute. Your level of wealth – above the poverty line – is primarily a matter of interpretation. Good news; it means...
7 de nov. de 2017 · The Art of the Good Life is a toolkit designed for practical living. Here you'll find fifty-two happiness hacks -- from guilt-free shunning of technology to gleefully paying your...
The Art of the Good Life is a toolkit designed for practical living. Here you’ll find fifty-two happiness hacks — from guilt-free shunning of technology to gleefully paying your parking tickets — that are certain to optimize your happiness.
Detailed notes and summary for The Art of the Good Life by Rolf Dobelli. A list of 52 rules for living a good, happy life.
