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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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Self-Help
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 advice—she calls it "sour charm
wisdom"—that we can still apply today to create authentic,
lasting
happiness.
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