This was a fun book! It made me think a lot about what happiness means, what makes a culture happier than another, and I learned about some countries I didn't know much about. It was very funny!
This is a great book if you want to learn more about happiness in other cultures. Funny and engaging, Weiner travels the world in search of what makes people in some countries happier than others.
This book makes an attempt to figure out what makes people happy and if perhaps some countries are more conductive to happiness than others. Can happiness be equated with living in a democratic, safe societies? How does money, power, family and friends, religion, trust, homogeneous versus heterogene...
Eric Weiner hears about a study done on the happiest spots on the planet. He makes a plan to visit some of them and determine the happiness levels for himself. In the process he visits Bhutan, the Netherlands, India, Switzerland, Qatar, and Iceland, discovering one man’s happiness is another man’s m...