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Why What We Think Is Right Is Wrong
HarperSanFrancisco
April 2007
On Sale: April 10, 2007
368 pages
ISBN: 0060813970
EAN: 9780060813970
Hardcover
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The Happiness Myth is a fascinating cultural history that both reveals our often silly assumptions about how we pursue happiness today and offers up real historical lessons that have stood the test of time. Hecht delivers memorable insights into the five practical means we choose to achieve happiness: wisdom, drugs, money, bodies, and celebration. Hecht liberates us from today's scolding, quasi-scientific messages that insist there is only one way to care for our minds and bodies. Hecht looks at contemporary happiness advice and explains why much of it doesn't work. "Modern culture," she writes, "is misrepresenting me and spending a lot of money to do it." Rich with hilarious anecdotes about both failed and successful paths to happiness, Hecht's book traces a common thread of adviceβshe calls it "sour charm wisdom"βthat we can still apply today to create authentic, lasting happiness.
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