The Sunday Times Bestseller Really brilliant and just crammed with wisdom and insight It will genuinely make a difference to me and the way I think about myself Stephen Fry 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 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 and indeed actually cause anxiety Happy aims to reclaim happiness and to enable us to appreciate the good things in life in all their transient glory By taking control of the stories we tell ourselves by remembering that everything s fine even when it might not feel that way we can allow ourselves to flourish and to live more happily What readers are saying Immensely positive and life affirming This is the blue print to a good life Thought provoking and potentially life changing
Un libro brillante, sincero y vastamente entretenidoDeshazte de tus libros de autoayuda y descubre la verdadera forma de ser feliz.En esta obra, Derren Brown analiza de una forma muy original los cambiantes conceptos de felicidad, desde la sorprendentemente moderna sabiduria de los estoicos y los epicureos de la epoca clasica hasta nuestros dias, cuando la industria de la autoayuda trata de reivindicar la felicidad como algo propio. Un libro brillante, sincero y vastamente entretenido.