HECTOR and the SEACH FOR HAPPINESS (My holiday read)

"Hector is a successful young psychiatrist. He's very good at treating patients in real need of help. Hector decides to set off round the world to find out what makes people everywhere happy (and sad), and whether there is such thing as the secret of true happiness...."


Lesson number 1: Making comparisons can spoil your happiness

Lesson number 2: Happiness often comes when least expected

Lesson number 3: Many people see happiness only in their future

Lesson number 4: Many people think happiness comes from having more power or more money

Lesson number 5: Sometimes happiness is not knowing the whole story

Lesson number 6: Happiness is a long walk in beautiful, unfamiliar mountains

Lesson number 7: It's a mistake to think that happiness is the goal

Lesson number 8: Happiness is being with the people you love

Lesson number 8b: Unhappiness is being separated from the people you love

Lesson number 9: Happiness is knowing your family lacks for nothing

Lesson number 10: Happiness is doing a job you love

Lesson number 11: Happiness is having a home and a garden of your own

Lesson number 12: It's harder to be happy in a country run by bad people

Lesson number 13: Happiness is feeling useful to others]

Lesson number  14: Happiness is to be loved for exactly who you are]

Lesson number 15: Happiness comes when you feel truly alive

Lesson number 16: Happiness is knowing how to celebrate


Question: Is happiness simply a chemical reaction in the brain?

Lesson number 17: Happiness is caring about the happiness of those you love


Lesson number 18: Happiness could be the freedom to love more than one woman at the same time

Lesson number 19:  The sun and the sea make everybody happy

Lesson number 20: Happiness is a certain way of seeing things

Lesson number 21: Rivalry poisons happiness


Lesson number 22: Women care more than men about making others happy

Lesson number 23: Happiness means making sure that those around you are happy?