Coincidentally, shortly after the publication of The Art of Happiness, this same idea began to take root in society from another direction—as a “new” scientific discovery—leading to a fundamental shift in many people’s perception of happiness. More and more people seemed to be rejecting the idea of happiness as something that is merely a by-product of our external circumstances, in favor of seeing happiness as something that can be systematically developed. This change was part of a worldwide Happiness Revolution, characterized by a sudden explosion of interest in the subject of human
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