Random Home presents the audiobook model of Happy, written and read by Derren Brown.

‘Deeply informative, shifting, wise and filled with love’

Alain de Botton

Everyone says they want to end up being happy. But that’s much more quickly said than performed. What does getting happy actually mean? And how do you even understand when you are feeling it?

Over the millennia, philosophers have thought long and hard about happiness. They possess defined it in many different ways and produce myriad strategies for living the good life..Read More about Happy: As to why Pretty much Everything is Absolutely Fine Drawing upon this vast body of function, in Happy Derren Dark brown explores changing ideas of happiness – from your surprisingly modern knowledge of the Stoics and Epicureans in classical occasions till today, when the self-help market has attemptedto claim happiness as its own. He shows just how many of self-help’s recommended routes to pleasure and success – such as positive thinking, self-belief and placing goals – could be disastrous to check out and, indeed, in fact cause nervousness. This amazing, candid and deeply entertaining book exposes the flaws in these means of thinking, and in exchange poses complicated but stimulating questions about how exactly we choose to live and the way we think about death.

Happy aims to reclaim happiness also to enable all of us to appreciate the good things in life, in every their transient glory. By taking control of the tales we tell ourselves, by keeping in mind that ‘everything’s good’ even though it might not really feel that method, we can allow ourselves to flourish and to live more happily.