
The Happiness Formula
A Scientific, Groundbreaking Approach to Happiness and Personal Fulfillment
- 224 pages
- English
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The Happiness Formula
A Scientific, Groundbreaking Approach to Happiness and Personal Fulfillment
About this book
A scientific, groundbreaking approach to happiness and personal fulfillment. In 1979, Dr. Alphonsus Obayuwana was awarded a national research grant and Smith-Kline Medical Perspective Fellowship to develop an instrument for measuring human hope, with the purpose of detecting hopelessness early enough in troubled human individuals so assistance could be offered in time to prevent suicide. The Hope Index Scale (HIS) that resulted from this grant became very popular with Fortune 500 companies and other institutions both in the US and in other countries. This led to the foundation of decades of research that ultimately resulted in this cutting-edge book, The Happiness Formula: Using Science to Understand Personal Satisfaction, Human Hope, and Subjective Well-Being. Unlike other books about happiness, which are too often filled with dos and don'ts, wishful thinking, and empty aphorisms, The Happiness Formula breaks new ground by introducing a universal unit of measure called the "Personal Happiness Index" or PHI. This makes it possibleâfor the first time everâto calculate and assign numerical happiness scores to human individuals by plugging their unique hopes, hungers, assets, and aspirations into an equation.Despite its title, The Happiness Formula is much more than a mathematical equation for measuring happiness. It is a book about life; the relationship between human hope and happiness; how to find, measure and boost them; and, most interestingly, how to confirm the happiest country in the world and even help identify the happiest living human, or HLH. It challenges the World Happiness Report of 2023, debunks three major happiness myths, and then introduces the Triple-H Equationâthe simple but profound formula about what makes life worth living. This is a book for happiness seekers and happiness advocates everywhere.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Acknowledgments
- Why This Book?
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: The Happiest Living HumanâWhere to Look and What to Look For
- Chapter 2: The Dawn of Positive PsychologyâBefore and After
- Chapter 3: Three Happiness Myths
- Chapter 4: Inborn Hunger Theory
- Chapter 5: The Triple-H Equation
- Chapter 6: Letâs Talk About Hope
- Chapter 7: The Fifteen Tenets of Human Hope
- Chapter 8: What About Hunger?
- Chapter 9: That Thing We Call âHappinessâ
- Chapter 10: The Big Picture
- Chapter 11: A New Way to Measure and Quantify Happiness
- Chapter 12: How to Find, Keep, and Live a Happy Life
- Chapter 13: Creative AIMingâA Simple Way to Find Your Life Mission
- Chapter 14: What to Do When Tragedy Strikes
- Chapter 15: Happiness Coaching: The Triple-H Method
- Overview and Summary
- About the Author
- Index
- Copyright