Stumbling on Happiness - A 12 Lesson Study Guide

Stumbling on Happiness
12 Lessons:

1. How do we look forward in time?
2. What is the emotional experience we call happiness?
3. A simple question: "How are you?" What can and can't you know about your current emotional state?
4. Why do people make mistakes when they look into their own futures and try to decide what will make them happy?
5. What is reality in our "Reality Movie?"
6. People confuse their current feelings with their future feelings. We can't do without our prefeelings, yet they leave us susceptible to a variety of errors.
7. The strong pull of the present influences us to make strange choices.
8. People are too good at making the best of a bad situation. Certain amounts of self-deception are cornerstones of mental health, but self-deceptions have a cost that is a threat to ourselves and others.
9. Many people are unaware that they lack self-insight which causes them to underestimate their future happiness and undermine their chances to achieve happiness. People are often happier with choices when they can't undo them.
10. Why do people make mistakes when they are doing something they have done a thousand times? We often don't remember the experience accurately.
11. If we don't learn from our own experience, can we learn from the experience of others? Some of the things we learn from others are myths like happiness comes from material wealth.
12. What did your learn, why should you care about what you have learned, and what didn't you learn that you wish you had learned?