Synthetic Happiness: You Can Be Happy No Matter What
You don't need to get what you want to be happy. You can be just as happy if you don't get what you want, as you can if you get what you want. It's not just sour grapes. You can manufacture your own happiness. It's synthetic happiness. Dan Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness, teaches us that synthetic happiness is just as real and enduring as real happiness. Dan also teaches us that our longings and worries are overblown because we have the capacity to create happiness within ourselves rather than depend on experiences.