Publisher's Synopsis
'Deeply informative, moving, wise and full of love'
Alain de Botton
'Should be on everyone's reading list - always!'
AC Grayling
Everyone says they want to be happy. But that's much more easily said than done. What does being happy actually mean? And how do you even know when you feel it?
Across the millennia, philosophers have thought long and hard about happiness. They have defined it in many different ways and come up with myriad strategies for living the good life. Drawing on this vast body of work, in Happy Derren Brown explores changing concepts of happiness - from the surprisingly modern wisdom of the Stoics and Epicureans in classical times right up until today, when the self-help industry has attempted to claim happiness as its own. He shows how many of self-help's suggested routes to happiness and success – such as positive thinking, self-belief and setting goals – can be disastrous to follow...
