Stumbling on Happiness / Daniel Gilbert; Translated from English — Moscow: Alpina Publisher, 2024. — 426 pages — ("Alpina: Psychology and Philosophy"). People invest a lot of effort, energy, and resources to make themselves happy in the future: they take out mortgages for decades dreaming of their own home, take loans at exorbitant interest rates for comfort in a renovated house, build careers working hard to someday afford all the pleasures of life. But in the pursuit of the future, we forget that it is possible and necessary to be happy in the present. In his remarkable and witty book, which has become a practical guide for tens of thousands worldwide, renowned Harvard psychologist Daniel Gilbert explains why our predictions about our future happiness do not match reality. Drawing on theories and facts from psychology, cognitive neuroscience, philosophy, and behavioral economics, the author proves that happiness must be created in the present! UDC 159.923:17.023.34 BBK 88.3:87.742