The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom

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The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom

Jonathan Haidt · 2006 · 320 pages

This is a book about 10 "Great Ideas". Each chapter is an attempt to savor one idea that has been discovered by several of the world's civilizations - to question it in light of what we now know from scientific research, and to extract from it the lessons that still apply to our modern lives.
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