And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Welcome comedian paula poundstone, this selfdetermined doubting thomas was determined to find the secret to lasting happiness and tried a series of experiments. In her new book. Its called the totally unscientific study for the search for Human Happiness. Why a selfproclaimed doubting thomas . Ill tell you. My book is a series of experiments, as you say, doing things that i or other people thought would make me happy, and every chapters written as an experiment with a hypothesis and the conditions and the variables and hopefully the funniest field notes ever written, but the question for me wasnt whether i would enjoy doing something. The question was, what could i do that would give me, you know, a little lasting something. You know what i mean . Like when i finished doing it i wouldnt have an umbrella, so to speak, for the inevitable rains of ones daily life, so the analysis of each chapter is the story of rai
And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Welcome comedian paula poundstone, this selfdetermined doubting thomas was determined to find the secret to lasting happiness and tried a series of experiments. In her new book. Its called the totally unscientific study for the search for Human Happiness. Why a selfproclaimed doubting thomas . Ill tell you. My book is a series of experiments, as you say, doing things that i or other people thought would make me happy, and every chapters written as an experiment with a hypothesis and the conditions and the variables and hopefully the funniest field notes ever written, but the question for me wasnt whether i would enjoy doing something. The question was, what could i do that would give me, you know, a little lasting something. You know what i mean . Like when i finished doing it i wouldnt have an umbrella, so to speak, for the inevitable rains of ones daily life, so the analysis of each chapter is the story of rai