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Introducing Professor Paul Dolan
Paul knows what makes us feel good. It's all about what we pay attention to. He wants us to choose to spend our time doing things that bring us pleasure or give us purpose… and ideally both. He will tell us how we can redesign our lives to be happier. He will also explain why we care so much about what other people do, and how we can learn to listen more to those that disagree with us.
At the LSE, Paul's main research interests are human behaviour and happiness, and the relationships between them, particularly as they apply to policy. He is author of the bestselling books Happiness by Design and Happy Ever After. He is also host of the Duck / Rabbit podcast about the polarisation problem in our society.
Show notes
Balance between happiness and misery in a world of polarised opinion
Does division make us happier?
Flaws in the happiness/self-help literary genre
The pleasure/purpose principle & the definition of happiness
Social narratives: how you feel rather than how you think you should feel
The relative importance of memories, the present moment and future projection in designing happiness
How we think about holidays: the anticipation, the experience and the memories
The opportunity cost of attention
Why do we continue to make mistakes: self-sabotage and happiness?
Salience and getting lost in the experience and the flow
Trade-offs and moral licensing (credits and debts)
The Reaching, Responsible and Related social narratives
The dangerous social narrative about having kids
Selfishness and greed about wanting to live forever
Having perspective is cheap talk
Our productivity obsession
Next time with Jenny Kleeman
Next time, talking a load of BS with me is the wonderful Jenny Kleeman, broadcaster, journalist and author of Sex Robots & Vegan Meat: Adventures at the frontier of Birth, Sex and Death. It's spooky, jaw dropping, crazy but very entertaining stuff. You do not want to miss out.
Be well and till next time,
Daniel
Professor Paul Dolan on happiness