Are people in Switzerland happier because it is the most democratic country in the world? Do citizens of Singapore benefit psychologically by having their options limited by the government? Is the King of Bhutan a visionary for his initiative to calculate Gross National Happiness? Why is Asheville, North Caolina so damn happy? With engaging wit and surprising insights, Eric Weiner answers those questions and many others, offering travelers of all moods some interesting new ideas for sunnier destinations and dispositions.Īvailable now from Hachette Audio on CD and as a digital download, and in Hardcover and ebook from Hachette Books. Part foreign affairs discourse, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide, The Geography of Bliss takes the reader from America to Iceland to India in search of happiness, or, in the crabby author's case, moments of "un-unhappiness." The book uses a beguiling mixture of travel, psychology, science and humor to investigate not what happiness is, but where it is. But the author’s conclusions are hardly the pointas with all great journeys, getting there is at least half the fun. A chronic grump's whirlwind tour of countries that are quietly pursuing the most American of obsessions, the pursuit of happiness, in very un-American ways. In The Geography of Bliss, Eric Weiner uses Iceland, Bhutan, and Moldova to reveal the necessity of cooperation and inconvenience, as these two factors ultimately determine each country’s respective happiness. The author’s pronouncements on the nature of happiness are not exactly world-shaking: It depends on cooperative relationships and community it has spiritual value it can be attained as a conscious choice.
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