Finding Happiness In The Book: The Happiness Hypothesis

According to the book “The Happiness Hypothesis,” this is a book about ten great ideas. Each of the book chapter is an attempt to savor an idea that has been discovered by several of the world’s civilizations to question it in light of what we know from scientific research, and to extract from it the lessons that still apply to our modern lives. Happiness Hypothesis is the analysis of how we can find happiness in our modern society with many scientific research, real-life examples, and formula for happiness. Helping people to find happiness and meaning is precisely the goal of positive psychology. This book is about the origins of positive psychology in ancient wisdom and the applications of positive psychology today in the real-world. In the beginning of the book, he introduces with metaphor that explains happiness in different context. He tells his story about the time he first rode a horse with no rope. He was scared that the horse might risk his life, but the horse knew what exactly she was doing. He introduces metaphors that explains happiness in the beginning of the story.

People are different when it comes to finding their own happiness. The book is like what we have learned in class. In the book it talks about how the brain has two major part and talks about the limbic system which we learned in class. I really like this book because the way he starts his stories with metaphors and quotes. Haidt give great formula of happiness in the book. In conclusion, the book is basically about how others find purpose and meaning of life, and how others don’t. It tells us about how people find happiness in diverse ways. We can find happiness through what we want or what we get, and happiness can also come from within and without. We need happiness to fulfill our lives. This book is a delightful book that states a lot of several different ways people find their own happiness in