The Happiness Formula
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The Happiness Formula

A Scientific, Groundbreaking Approach to Happiness and Personal Fulfillment

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

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 possible—for the first time ever—to 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 Equation—the 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

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Why This Book?
  5. Introduction
  6. Chapter 1: The Happiest Living Human—Where to Look and What to Look For
  7. Chapter 2: The Dawn of Positive Psychology—Before and After
  8. Chapter 3: Three Happiness Myths
  9. Chapter 4: Inborn Hunger Theory
  10. Chapter 5: The Triple-H Equation
  11. Chapter 6: Let’s Talk About Hope
  12. Chapter 7: The Fifteen Tenets of Human Hope
  13. Chapter 8: What About Hunger?
  14. Chapter 9: That Thing We Call ‘Happiness’
  15. Chapter 10: The Big Picture
  16. Chapter 11: A New Way to Measure and Quantify Happiness
  17. Chapter 12: How to Find, Keep, and Live a Happy Life
  18. Chapter 13: Creative AIMing—A Simple Way to Find Your Life Mission
  19. Chapter 14: What to Do When Tragedy Strikes
  20. Chapter 15: Happiness Coaching: The Triple-H Method
  21. Overview and Summary
  22. About the Author
  23. Index
  24. Copyright