{"product_id":"the-opposite-of-happiness-how-bad-feelings-make-and-break-us-paperback","title":"The Opposite of Happiness - How Bad Feelings Make and Break Us (Paperback)","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e‘When you finish, you’ll know yourself better, you’ll\nunderstand the people you care about better’ ANGELA DUCKWORTH, author of \u003ci\u003eGrit\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e‘Teeming with wisdom, insight, empathy, and sparkle. One of\nthe best books I have ever read’ CASS R. SUSNSTEIN, co-author of \u003ci\u003eNoise\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eA founding father of behavioural economics reveals the\nhidden logic of negative emotions with a clarity and humour that make our worst\nfeelings strangely easier to bear.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eEvery age has its illusions. Ours is that happiness is the\nnatural human condition. Behavioural economist George Loewenstein argues the\nopposite: that our lives are inextricably shaped by the darker emotions we\nspend so much time trying to avoid.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Opposite of Happiness,\u003c\/i\u003e he draws on decades of\ninfluential research—as well as insights from literature and from his own life\nexperiences—to offer a tour de force reexamination of the role negative\nemotions play in our lives: why pain is stickier than pleasure, how the modern\nworld makes bad feelings worse, and why our attempts to escape misery usually\nonly sharpen its sting. Those who struggle to find and sustain happiness are\nnot unlucky or flawed, he argues, but merely human, suffering the slings and\narrows of an inherently negative nature. This knowledge comes, however, not as\na bitter pill but as much-needed solace for anyone navigating the frustrations\nand heartbreaks of modern life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eIn this fascinating deconstruction of negative emotions and\ntheir behavioral consequences, Loewenstein explains how features of our mind,\nlike memory, attention, and self-esteem, conspire to keep us down. He reveals\nthe downside of supposedly uplifting feelings like hope, and untangles misery’s\nintertwined forms: guilt and shame, jealousy and envy, loneliness and\ndepression, impatience, boredom, and regret. Drawing from a first-of-its-kind\nMisery Survey, Loewenstein shares participants’ stories about, and insights\ninto, the diversity of negative emotions that collectively weigh us down.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eProviding a provocative and refreshing counter argument to\nthe self-help industry, \u003ci\u003eThe Opposite of Happiness\u003c\/i\u003e shares a sobering,\ndeeply human, and ultimately comforting truth: The sooner we understand our\nnegative natures, the sooner we will stop feeling guilty about failing to\nachieve lasting bliss, and the better connected we will be to others who share\nthe same, or their own unique mix of, negative emotions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout The Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eGeorge Loewenstein \u003c\/b\u003eis the Herbert A. Simon University\nProfessor of Economics and Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University. He is a\npast president of the Society of Judgment and Decision Making and a Fellow of\nthe American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has served on multiple National\nAcademy of Science and Institute of Medicine Panels and advised numerous\ngovernmental organizations, including the National Institutes of Health and the\nUK’s Behavioural Insights Team. Loewenstein grew up in the Boston suburbs and\nreceived his PhD from Yale University. He lives in Pittsburgh with his wife,\nDonna Harsch, a professor of history at Carnegie Mellon.\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"TIMES DISTRIBUTION PTE LTD","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46152205369551,"sku":"9780008756413","price":39.19,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0574\/5662\/3823\/files\/download_da75e185-690d-4a72-81a9-d562d6dee52b.webp?v=1790215644","url":"https:\/\/popular.com.sg\/products\/the-opposite-of-happiness-how-bad-feelings-make-and-break-us-paperback","provider":"Popular Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}