But the answer is not so simple, as James Surowiecki explains in "Technology and Happiness". People are irrational about what will promote their well-being, and they aren't very good at anticipating their future preferences.
Dr. Peter Ubel is a physician and behavioral scientist whose research and writing explores the quirks in human nature that influence people's lives — the mixture of rational and irrational forces that affect health, happiness and the way society functions.
His research and writing explores the quirks in human nature that influence peoples' lives — the mixture of rational and irrational forces that affect health, happiness and the way society functions.
But Haemi is stricken with dark moods and irrational thoughts that eclipse any chance of happiness for her.
He is a physician and behavioral scientist whose research and writing explore the mixture of rational and irrational forces that affect our health, our happiness and the way our society functions.
Fortunately, he had told me, and told others, that he didn't want to live without Elmer, and none of us mistook that assertion for irrational grief; he had lived his half century of happiness, and it was over.
Kristen was on the founding team of Google's behavioral economics team, and was previously the founder of Irrational Labs, a behavioral economics nonprofit focused on health and happiness.
In the case of the automobile, we have long been encouraged to believe there is a natural convergence between such irrational pairs as speed and self-esteem, or leather interiors and family happiness.
She condemned ethical altruism as incompatible with the requirements of human life and happiness, and held that the initiation of force was evil and irrational, writing in Atlas Shrugged that "Force and mind are opposites".
Klimt's art is full of allusions to ancient cultures - Egypt, Greece - in which the irrational was acknowledged, cultures he uses as strands of his post-Christian manifesto for happiness.
