我們的心,像是一頭放任的大象。
我們的智,像是一個希望具備掌控能力的騎象者。
心智往往意見相左,各行其事,結果離開快樂越來越遠。
如何引導大象與騎象者以協調的步伐走上快樂之道?
過去人類歷史沉澱下來的古老智慧,告訴我們許多快樂的指南針,
現在尖端科學研究出快樂的方程式,則是H = S + C + V。
Happiness(快樂)= Setpoint(快樂起始點)+Condition(生活條件)+Voluntary activities(自發性活動)
只要懂得善用老智慧及新科學、掌握自己的潛能與限制,
就能實現快樂,過一個充滿智慧的人生。
本書中譯本由網路與書出版。
"The most brilliant and lucid analysis of virtue and well-being in the entire literature of positive psychology. For the reader who seeks to understand happiness, my advice is: Begin with Haidt." --Martin E.P. Seligman, University of Pennsylvania and author of Authentic Happiness
The Happiness Hypothesis is a book about ten Great Ideas. Each chapter is an attempt to savor one idea that has been discovered by several of the world’s civilizations--to question it in light of what we now know from scientific research, and to extract from it the lessons that still apply to our modern lives and illuminate the causes of human flourishing. Award-winning psychologist Jonathan Haidt shows how a deeper understanding of the world’s philosophical wisdom and its enduring maxims--like "do unto others as you would have others do unto you," or "what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger"--can enrich and transform our lives.