Happy: Why More or Less Everything is Absolutely Fine

by Derren Brown

However, as we would know if failed businessmen could sell their biographies as well as the successful ones, blind faith is more commonly a recipe for disaster than for triumph.

The perpetual and overwhelming play of random chance is glossed over, and in its place a hero’s journey is invented.

In other words, it is not what we own that satisfies us but rather what we have in relation to what we feel is possible and attainable for ourselves.

‘You need a change of soul, not a change of climate.

Because they are usually rich, sexy and glamorous (so few of us tick all three boxes and still have time for our extensive charity work),

Love becomes far more fulfilling when we realise it in large part consists of sensitively accommodating our lover’s inadequacies.