Autor: Eduardo Punset
Idioma: English
Editorial:.Chelsea Green Publishing
Publicación: White River Jct., USA, 2007
Número de páginas: 160
Encuadernación: Paperback
ISBN: 9781933392448
Precio: 9.00

In the realm of hard science, the journey to happiness is still in its infancy; the final destination, uncertain. The Happiness Trip is a lucid and passionate approach to the science of happiness and its conditioning factors: emotions, stress, hormonal flows and ageing, as well as the social, economic, cultural and religious aspects associated with the emotion.

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This is the English translation of “El viaje a la felicidad“.

“We have set out on the unknown waters of our potential happiness with no previous knowledge, no maps. There are no models in nature. It is only recently that the scientific community developed technical instruments to measure the impact of emotions and stress. These have given rise in turn to the search for happiness, which immediately burst onto the field of scientific analysis.”

The search for happiness is quintessentially human—a concept that figures foremost among our deepest desires, yet an emotion late to evolve and as yet barely understood. As Eduardo Punset explains, “A century ago, the average human lived to the ripe old age of thirty. It was just enough time to learn to survive (if you were lucky) and fulfill the biological imperative: to reproduce and rear the next generation. There was no future and therefore no reason to spend much time thinking about a goal as frivolous as the pursuit of happiness. Happiness belonged to death and the sweet hereafter; it depended on the gods. The scientific revolution unleashed one of the most important changes in the history of humankind: the prolongation of life expectancy, forty or more superfluous years (in biological terms). For the first time, mankind has a future and, logically, begins to think about how to be happy in the here and now.”

The Happiness Trip is a lucid and passionate approach to the science of happiness and its conditioning factors: emotions, stress, hormonal flows and aging, as well as the social, economic, cultural and religious aspects associated with the emotion. Here Punset explains the most recent scientific discoveries on the issue and, in the final chapter, proposes a “formula” for happiness.