Every day, every hour we live so that the wonderful person we will someday say thank you to us.
We go to bed early so that tomorrow we wake up refreshed. We run in the morning and save once a month to have a healthy heart and free money for retirement. So what? Does this new «I» often thank us? In fact, we know nothing about the feelings and desires of the people that we will become. And we won’t know, there’s no need to even try: what we think will please us later, we actually need right now. Advice «to live in the present» and «always be here and now» is boldly called «stupid» by a positive psychologist, professor at Harvard University (USA) Daniel Gilbert and gives precise instructions on how to correctly use such functions of the frontal lobes of our brain as planning and predicting the nearest future. We have no idea what the future will bring us, but we can wake up every day in anticipation of a miracle. The «Instruction» is written lightly and witty, and it is not surprising that the book became a bestseller. This is its second edition in Russia.
Alpina Publisher, 320 p.