Great read!

this really smashes down the walls of social narratives like kids, marriage and altruism. If you're sick of living your life to societies standards or just want a fresh perspective on life's journey, this is for you.

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Once upon a time

Really enjoyable narrative on why and how to find happiness in our individual situations. Highly recommended read for both introspection and light listening/reading.

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A very tangible and relatable book that gives many insight into social narratives

“Happy ever after” is a great sequel to Paul Dolan’s book “Happiness by design”. In this book, Paul Dolan takes a macroscopic approach to the studying of various fundamental social narratives such as success,wealth,marriage, and responsibility. Albeit not agreeing with everything mentioned in the book, I still do believe that the book is very tangible and relatable to a wide audience, who in turn can learn a lot about social narratives and their effects on our daily lives. Paul Dolan is also a very straightforward and engaging author, and whose insights are in many cases substantiated by research that he carried out or was a part of. All of this makes reading the book a truly enjoyable experience.

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A brilliant read

Clear, incisive, entertaining and accessible. Really enjoyed this, and pretty much got through it in one sitting. Plenty to think about, and plenty to act on.

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Wonderful book

Very interesting, well researched and very good to listen to.

Really gives understanding to a lot of unconscious processes.

I wish I had a lecturer like this author when I was at university as I would have loved classes!

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Wonderful book!

I really enjoyed this book. As someone who doesn’t currently live at least one social narrative, this was a wonderful in-depth look at how we judge, and are judged by society. Happiness is definitely living the life you align with and we can all do with reflecting on the drive behind our life decisions. Great read!

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Generally good and mind opening but...

First of all I enjoyed it very much, it was fresh, open minded and genuine in general. We clearly need more books about social narratives because so many of us are simply not aware of it and accepting some of the "Truth" as absolute, which is war from the reality of life. However I couldn't help myself but feel that the author was pushing his audience into one social narrative of happiness and that is one and most important goal everyone should inspire to reach. Simply talking the message was that all of social narratives should be replaced with one - choose happiness because we all want to be happy! Yes, it sounds nice, I want to be happy and not miserable but I also know that it's impossible to stay happy all the time, I'd rather seek for fulfillment, peace of mind, purpose instead of smiling 24/7. Also swearing most of the times was completely unnecessary, I'm from working class too but that doesn't mean I have to use F**k as something obligatory...

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Interesting thoughts

Loved the book, some refreshing thoughts and ideas. Although the quality of the recording didn't seem as good as other books I have listened to for some reason? Still well worth a listen

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