Struggling in happiness

How will our condition be tomorrow if our greatest dreams come true? It may seem to a person that happiness depends on winning the lottery ticket, while he does not know what the future hides for him. To stumble upon happiness instead of finding it—that is what the world of the soul, Daniel Gilbert, calls us to in his book, in which he tackles a puzzle humans have failed to solve, which is the pursuit of happiness. In palatable words and simple analyses, the author shows us how far we are from understanding everything that goes on in the human mind, that amazing machine that may lead us to a false illusion of our aspirations, so we are only victims of our current feelings that cloud our vision of what we long for in the future. Victims who spend 12% of their time distracted, dreaming of a bright future, and those dreams are nothing but mirages of pure imagination. The book places us in front of contradictions of the human soul and shakes our false perceptions that may make us happy in life, following a scientific approach based on the latest research in psychology, perception sciences, philosophy, and behavioral economics, in a smooth style that is not devoid of humor.