Der sinn des Lebens liegt in meinem T.U.N

Paul Dolan ist ein international renommierter Psychologe und Wirtschaftswissenschaftler. Er leitet das Institut für Verhaltensforschung an der London School of Economics and Political Science. Paul Dolan ist Mitglied zahlreicher Expertengremien der britischen Regierung, die Reformen des öffentlichen Gemeinwohls und des Gesundheitswesens entwickeln.

"Sein Buch "Absichtlich glücklich: Wie unser Tun das Fühlen verändert." ermutigt den Leser dazu, genauer hinzuschauen. Sich über einen längeren Zeitraum zu fragen und wahrzunehmen: Was macht mir persönlich Freude? Was erfüllt mich mit Sinn? Und diese Fragen für sich ganz persönlich zu beantworten. Mithilfe des von Dolan entwickelten Umsetzungs-Prozesses lassen sich die Antworten in das eigene Leben integrieren, sodass man auf seinem Weg in ein glücklicheres Leben sicherlich ein gutes Stück vorankommen kann. Es geht darum, etwas zu tun, statt immer nur zu träumen. Jede, auch die kleinste veränderung auf der Handlungsebene verändert das Fühlen." 

Ähnlich Wilhelm Schmid in 'Philosophie der Lebenskunst' Es geht um 'bewußt leben' um Achtsamkeit. Mindfulness.

Dolan's advice to those of us who want to be more happier? Think about what actually makes us happy and ignore these alternative stories, which are mostly driven by "status, by what other people tell us, by expectations, by stories from culture."
Instead, we should seek experiences that have purpose and pleasure. "Laughing, engaging in random acts of kindness, gratitude, being open to new experiences, having conversations about all things. These are all located in day to day experiences." 
"Happiness is in the small stuff," he said. "it's not in the big life-changing things. It's in the every day."
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-10/15/paul-dolan-happiness-wired-2015

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/nov/22/happiness-expert-paul-dolan-what-makes-me-happy
I contend that happiness should be defined and measured in terms of experiences of pleasure and purpose over time. It is situated in what we do and who we spend time with. It does not reside in some (often silly) story we tell ourselves about what we think should make us happy. We will often tell ourselves we are happy because, on the face of it, we have a great job or partner but our day-to-day experiences at work or with that person, if only we listened to them, are telling us that we are actually quite miserable.
 “People say: Oh, we simply love our two weeks every year in Marbella,” so goes the story. No, you bloody don’t: it’s too hot and the kids get on your nerves more than they do at home. Go away for a few days here and there rather than two weeks once a year.

Working out brings me a great balance between pleasure and purpose as I focus on lifting that next set of weights. My visits to the gym four times a week are about the only moments when my mind never wanders elsewhere – I am in the flow of the experience.

However he has identified five ways to be immediately happier. They are:

1. • Listening to a favourite piece of music
2. • Spending five more minutes with someone you like
3. • Going outdoors
4. • Helping someone else
5. • Having a new experience
   
   http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/hay-festival/11640753/Five-things-you-can-do-to-be-happier-right-now.html
   
   "Your likelihood of buying a self-help book is significantly higher if you've bought a self-help book in the last six months," he says. "You buy one, it tells you to be positive, no shit, I worked that one out. Because the book doesn't help you do it, and you end up even more miserable because you haven't succeed in being positive, so you buy another book that tells you the same thing."
   "Nearly all those books are about the conscious mind, about thinking differently," he goes on. "And it's just really hard to change minds. But what you can do more effectively is you can change the environment within which people behave, and that makes their actions different, and that affects how they feel."
   http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/features/a-bodybuilding-professors-guide-to-happiness-meet-paul-dolan-a-very-scientific-self-help-guru-9709455.html

This distinction is at the heart of Dolan's argument: between the experiencing self, the version that feels things directly, and the story-telling self, who is more interested in constructing a version of their life that feels right. Maybe I don't want to write a novel at all, in other words. Maybe I just want to hold a novel with my name on it.

As a Professor of Behavioural Science at the London School of Economics, Dolan conducts original research into the measurement of happiness and its causes and consequences, including the effects of our behaviour. Here he creates a new outlook on the pursuit of happiness - it's not just how you feel, it's how you act. Happiness by Design shows that being happier requires us to actively re-design our immediate environment. Enough has been written on how to think happy. Happiness by Design is about how to behave happy and how to incorporate the most recent research findings into our everyday lives.