Engineering Happiness: A New Approach for Building a Joyful Life

by Manel Baucells, Rakesh Sarin

Manel Baucells and Rakesh Sarin have been conducting ground-breaking research on happiness for more than a decade, and in this book they distill their provocative findings into a lively, accessible guide for a wide audience of readers. Integrating their own research with the latest thinking in the behavioral and social sciences—including management science, psychology, and economics—they offer a new approach to the puzzle of happiness. Woven throughout with wisdom from the world’s religions and literatures, Engineering Happiness has something to offer everyone—regardless of background, profession, or aspiration—who wants to better understand, control, and attain a more joyful life.

• Shows how a few major principles can explain how happiness works and why it is so elusive

• Demonstrates how the essence of attaining happiness is choice

• Explores how to avoid happiness traps

• Tells how to recognize happiness triggers in everyday life

Genres: Nonfiction, Self Help, Personal Development, Psychology

246 pages, Paperback

First published February 11, 2012

Reviews

[Andy · Rating 5 out of 5]

How is this book not a NYT best-seller is beyond me. It deserves to be rated among the best happiness books ever written. Logical, comprehensive and practical with math and scientific backing while combining motivating anecdotal and spiritual elements, it's really an incredible book!

[Heather · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of my new top ten favorite books of all time. Not because of the style or voice, but because of the tools included and how accessible the authors make them to the reader. Everyone should read this book. Well, at least those who want to be happier.

[Jacqui · Rating 4 out of 5]

I like the straightforward approach in this book.