Stumbling on Happiness

Daniel Gilbert pulls off something rare: a book grounded in decades of peer-reviewed research on affective forecasting that is also genuinely funny and a pleasure to read cover to cover. Winning the Royal Society Prize for science writing, earning praise from Kahneman, and landing on the New York Times bestseller list are not accidents — the core insight that we are systematically bad at imagining our own future feelings is both surprising and well-proven. One of the best popular psychology books of the last two decades.