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...Josephine Knowles”—in lipstick, wig, and billowing ball gown—at the Gala celebration of the merger in October 1999. Knowles and then-Provost Harvey V. “Buttercup” Fineberg ’67 serenaded the dignitaries with Gilbert and Sullivan songs personally rewritten for the occasion...
...People are less unique than they think,” Gilbert says. “The same kind of things make most people happy, and human relationships is a major...
This isn’t the only time Gilbert’s beloved granddaughters play a cameo in his work. They pop up constantly in lecture slides, in his textbook, and especially in his speech. In prioritizing family, Gilbert incorporates a lesson from his research...
Indeed, he isn’t even afraid to make use of scatalogical examples. In “Stumbling,” Gilbert uses his granddaughter’s massive collection of books about feces to explain our inability to learn from our mistakes. Unlike babies, we have no excuse for repeating our “pooping errors” and refusing to learn “proper potty protocol...
While his research isn’t about self-help, it’s certainly made Gilbert himself happier. For example, he takes the lesson that people tend to focus on insignificant decisions—like what pants to buy—to Costco, where he purchases his casual cargo pants in bulk...