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|pages=288
|publisher=Profile Books Ltd
|date=18 Jan January 2007
|isbn=978-1861979896
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If The Secrets of Happiness is mistakenly shelved among the growing ranks of self-help manuals in bookshops, it should carry a health warning. I won't say the book depressed me, but I was left under no illusion as to the
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|comment= Oh, how fascinating. I suppose, then, as the founding fathers would have us believe, it's the pursuit of happiness that is our right. Or rather, it's our duty.
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|name=Magda
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|comment= Oh, any book that reminds us that happiness has not much to do with the avoidance of suffering or the fulfilment of desire is to be welcomed in our obsessively navel-gazing era.
Psychological studies generally tend to show that - unfortunately - happiness is more of a personality, or even temperamental trait than effect of anything that happens to us or that we do. I think it's a very good reason why making people happy should NOT be a political aim: people can be happy in pretty much any circumstances (maybe apart from the very extreme ones).
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