The Answer Is No

by Fredrik Backman

He works well in groups as long as it’s groups of fewer than two people.

Being smart is the worst thing one can be in modern society. All it ever means is more work.

Because Lucas is making the mistake of thinking that the board wants to solve the problem. But people actually almost never want to do that.

“The board forbids it!!!” screams Head One at that point, in a way that actually justifies the use of at least three exclamation marks.

Lucas is happy. It’s not as hard as one might think to become, the hard part is just to keep being it. It’s hard because it’s so easy to get in your head that if you are to be happy, you have to be happy exactly all of the time. And who in the world has the energy for that? Happiness can be exhausting. Honestly, it’s most often enough to just not be the opposite.