In this event, you’ll learn

• How most people have the relationship of happiness and work backwards

• Which two battles are constantly raging in your brain

• What the historic odds of being born are

• Why Harvard grads and retail managers sometimes earn the same money

• The magical weekly split of three

• How to do laundry just once a month

• Two surprising barriers that keep us from happiness

About the Author

Neil Pasricha is the New York Times–bestselling author of The Happiness Equation and the Book of Awesome series, which has been published in ten countries, spent more than five years on bestsellers lists, and sold more than a million copies. Pasricha is a Harvard MBA, one of the most popular TED speakers of all time, and founder of the Institute for Global Happiness. He has dedicated the past fifteen years of his life to developing leaders—creating global programs inside the world’s largest companies and speaking to hundreds of thousands of people around the world. He lives in Toronto with his wife and son.

Overview

Neil Pasricha, blogger and best-selling author of The Book of Awesome, realized one day that the people he was working with and coaching were often extremely successful yet not very happy. Then it struck him that he wasn’t really happy either. He went on a quest to discover the answer to the age old question “What’s the secret to a happy life?” The result is The Happiness Equation: Want Nothing + Do Anything = Have Everything.

The book is a combination of inspiring quotes, research data, stories, thought-provoking ‘scribbles’, and lots of actionable ideas. Pasricha distills his years of research and personal reflections into nine ‘happiness secrets’ – three for each element of his happiness equation. Sadly (for you), I won’t reveal what those nine secrets are in this summary – even the book’s table of contents doesn’t do that! I will, however, happily share three of my actionable takeaways, which indirectly hint at three of Pasricha’s happiness secrets.

This is not a new insight. Consider the following advice:

Speaker Dale Carnegie: “When life hands you a lemon, make lemonade.”

Singer Bobby McFerrin: “Don’t Worry, Be Happy”

Author Stanley Gordon West: “Smile and the world smiles with you.”