“Happy Ever After: Escaping the Myth of the Perfect Life” by Paul Dolan

Professor Paul Dolan, author of the new book Happy Ever After: Escaping the Myth of the Perfect Life — BBC Breakfast 22 January 2019.

“Professor Happy” kicks off the interview:

“We’re often chasing things we think will make us happy when we get there. Either we achieve those things and they don’t actually make us feel good. Or we are made sad by not having achieved them. It’s a lose/lose situation.”

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