What are the true determinants of a happy and fulfilling life? Widely admired ps
ychological researcher Rag Raghunathan sets out to find the answer, undertaking
extensive research into the happiness of students, business people, stay-at-home
-parents, lawyers, and artists, among others. From his research he reveals a cru
cial discovery: many of the psychological traits that lead to success ironically
get in the way of happiness. Forging a new way forward, Raghunathan shows how w
e can transform these key traits of success, namely the need to be loved, the ne
ed for importance and the need for control, and replace them with other behaviou
rs, goals and values to improve our life-long levels of happiness.
