Yellow Tea Cup :: B4nch4’s Daily Stuff

Hector is a successful young psychiatrist. He s very good at treating patients in real need of his help. But a lot of his patients, aren’t really ill, just dissatisfied and unhappy with their lives. Hector can t do much for them, and it s beginning to depress him.

So he set off to travel the world to understand better what is it that makes people happy? and finding, if possible, the recipe of happiness, to help him treating his unhappy patients.

Hector compile a list of the lessons he learn about happiness:
Lesson 1: Making Comparison Can Spoil Your Happiness
Lesson 2: Happiness often comes when least expected
Lesson 3: Many people see happiness only in their future
Lesson 4: Many people think that happiness comes from having more power & money
Lesson 5: Sometimes happiness is not knowing the whole story
Lesson 6: Happiness is a long walk in beautiful, unfamiliar mountains
Lesson 7: It’s a mistake to think that happiness is the goal
Lesson 8: Happiness is being with the people you love
Lesson 8b: Unhappiness is being separated with the people you love
Lesson 9: Happiness is knowing your family lacks for nothing
Lesson 10: Happiness is doing a job you love
Lesson 11: Happiness is having a home & garden of your own
Lesson 12: It’s harder to be happy in a country run by bad people
Lesson 13: Happiness is feeling useful to others
Lesson 14: Happiness is to be loved for exactly who you are
Lesson 15: Happiness comes when you feel truly alive
Lesson 16: Happiness is knowing how to celebrate
Lesson 17: Happiness is caring about the happiness of those you love
Lesson 18: The sun and the sea makes everybody happy

The book is written in such a simple style, as if the author was speaking to a child. Yet you soon find yourself reading about prostitution, globalization and death, as Hector attempts to uncover what makes people happy (or unhappy) around the world.

This simple yet charming & insightful book truly put smile on my face^^