Dan Ariely is the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Behavioral Economics at MIT, where he holds a joint appointment between MIT's Media Laboratory and the Sloan School of Management. He is also a researcher at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and a visiting professor at Duke University. Ariely wrote this book while he was a fellow at the Institute for Advance Study at Princeton. His work has been featured in leading scholarly journals and a variety of popular media outlets, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, Scientific American, and Science. Ariely has appeared on CNN and National Public Radio. He divides his time between Durham, North Carolina, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the rest of the world.
Source: Harper Collins
Description: Take stock of your happiness.
What should we be asking ourselves?
Dan Ariely: I would . . . I would ask them to ask the questions of what in life . . . How much happiness are they getting from different aspects of their lives? And is this the right amount of happiness to arrive . . . to achieve from all of those? So in some sense it’s to take stocks of your actions, and your returns in terms of happiness of each of the actions, and see which one of those are misaligned – that we invest too much in and we don’t get enough out of, and focus on the things that actually give us more happiness.
Recorded on: Feb 19 2008