Book Report: “If You’re So Smart, Why Aren’t You Happy?” Part 2

In If You’re So Smart, Why Aren’t You Happy?, psychological researcher and happiness coach Raj Raghunathan argues that happiness is our natural state. Several aspects of socialisation can lead us astray, but Raghunathan aims to remedy this by identifying the “seven deadly happiness sins” and resolving each of them with a corresponding habit of the highly happy.

Here’s the second half of our easy-to-read distillation of the book’s key arguments

– check out Part One


first if you haven’t read it yet!

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