Will there be a key to happiness? Dearest comedian Paula Poundstone conducts some ‘thoroughly scientific’ experiments to find out, providing herself up as a guinea pig and recording her data for the advantage of all humankind. Armed with her exclusive brand of self-deprecating wit and the scientific technique, in each chapter Paula tries out a different get-happy hypothesis. She gets in shape with taekwondo. She drives fast when driving of the Lamborghini. She communes with nature while camping about The Totally Unscientific Research of the Seek out Human Pleasure with her little girl. Swing dancing? Deep breathing? Volunteering? Does some of it bring her joy? And more important, can the happiness last when she comes back towards the daily needs of her chaotic existence?

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