Roadtesting Happiness: How To Be Happier (No Matter What)

What is happiness and how can we achieve it? Does the advice of happiness 'experts' really work?

Propelled by a desire to overcome the depression she feels after a personal tragedy, and armed with a journalist's critical eye, Sophie Scott investigates just what happiness is and the best way to achieve it. She interviews a range of local and international happiness experts - including Harvard University's Professor Tal Ben Shahar; the 'world's happiest man', Buddhist monk Mathieu Ricard; and psychologist Dr Anthony Kidman - on everything from the importance of relationships, the power of positive thinking, the benefits of gratitude and altruism, meditation, spirituality and mindfulness, and of exercise and the mind-body connection.

Then Sophie tries it all out. For a month for every solution suggested by the experts, Sophie 'roadtests' her way to happiness.

With a unique and compelling blend of personal experience and scientific evidence, ROADTESTING HAPPINESS has the research, inspiration and tools to make your life happier than it is right now.