Can we really learn to be happy? Yes, we can. Each semester, nearly 1,400 students join Harvard teacher Tal Ben-Shahar’s life-changing class, ‘How to Get Happy.’ Presently it’s the most popular training course at Harvard, used by twenty percent of its graduates.

In Happier, Teacher Ben-Shahar provides the ideas from the Ivory Tower to Main Road, distilling the lessons and exercises from his course into a slim volume of useful wisdom. Grounded in the Positive Psychology movement, based on many years of researching the functions of researchers, academics, and philosophers, Happier emphasizes the need for pursuing a existence of both satisfaction and meaning.