Better: Decision-Making, Performance, and the Pursuit of Happiness
This discussion group will explore how recent insights from psychology and related fields can help make us better students, better professionals, better leaders, and better people. We will consider works dealing with happiness, decision-making, learning, success, and persuasion. The reading list will most likely include some or all of the following: Jonathan Haidt, The Happiness Hypothesis; Daniel Gilbert, Stumbling on Happiness; Jonah Lehrer, How We Decide; Atul Gawande, Better: A Surgeons Notes on Performance; Martin E.P. Seligman, Flourish; Paul Tough, How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character; Richard Thaler & Cass Sustein, Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness; and Annie Murphy Paul, Brilliant: The New Science of Smart.