Joyful: The Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to Create Extraordinary Happiness

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By Ingrid Fetell Lee ’02

Published Dec. 5, 2018

Former IDEO design director Ingrid Fetell Lee ’02 uses Joyful (Little, Brown Spark) to analyze the origins and experience of joy, drawing together biology, neuroscience, and personal anecdotes into chapters such as “Energy”, “Surprise”, and “Magic”.

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