Happiness Is a Serious Problem: A Human Nature Repair Manual - Hardcover

Prager, Dennis

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060392193 ISBN 13: 9780060392192

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1998

Synopsis

Containing many life-changing insights, this humorous, accessible, and penetrating volume explains the concept that by reducing our expectations, long-lasting happiness becomes easily attainable.

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Review:

..".a cogent and thoughtful examination on why human beings have a moral obligation to be happy." -- "USA Today.".".[Prager] has an astonishing ability to state simple truths we hadn't heard articulated before, at least not so clearly, in a way that makes their truthfulness immediately and powerfully obvious." -- "The Wall Street Journal""Prager's latest book challenges readers to realize that they--not any outside force--are the greatest obstacle to happiness."-- "Los Angeles Times "There is perhaps no more important task for a person that the research for happiness, and no more reliable guide in that quest than Dennis Prager." -- Rabbi Harold Kushner, author of "When Bad Things Happen to Good People"

From the Back Cover:

Happiness, says Prager, is a serious problem. This is because the single greatest obstacle to happiness is insatiable human nature itself. But though lasting happiness is profoundly difficult to achieve, it is not impossible. Now, with his insightful and explosive new work Happiness Is a Serious Problem, an extension of his world-famous lectures, Prager gives readers the powerful new tools they need to make happiness a reality in their own lives.

Happiness Is a Serious Problem contains many life-changing insights, including the idea that the only people we know who are happy are people we don't know well; the fact that being happy is usually seen as a selfish goal but that we have a moral obligation to the people in our lives to pursue it; and that unhappiness is really the difference between our perceptions and our reality. By changing our reality or reducing our expectations, happiness becomes easily realizable. Humorous, accessible and penetrating, Happiness Is a Serious Problem shows that when happiness is treated with the same level of seriousness that people bring to life's other tasks, it becomes immediately more tangible and thus achievable.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0060392193
• ISBN 13: 9780060392192
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 179