Happy- Why More or Less Everything Is Absolutely Fine by Brown, Derren -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover About the Book Contents Title Page Dedication Epigraph Part One: Beginnings

1 Once Upon a Time 2 The Problem With Being Positive

Believe in yourself, blame yourself Doesn’t it work? Goal-setting The diagonal

3 Wanting

Part Two: Solutions

4 The Considered Life

Two selves Regaining authorship The roots of self-enquiry

5 A (Very) Brief History of Happiness

Socrates and Plato Aristotle The Epicureans and Stoics Christianity Aristotle reborn The Renaissance The Enlightenment The Romantics Marxism Nietzsche Freud Today

6 The Stoic Building Blocks

The foundations of Epicurus Stoic virtue Your judgements

7 Relinquishing Control

Relationships and other areas of control Partly in control Indifferents The Stoics and fate Amor fati

8 Applying Stoic Methods

An entirely practical philosophy Start talking to yourself Don’t add to first impressions Do I have a problem right now? Rational meditation Third-person perspective Finding time

9 Anger and Hurt

Causes of anger Some good reasons to avoid anger Seven ways of removing anger Empathy and connectedness

10 Fame

Can’t complain Being famous Being rich Being loved Madness and media The secret magical formula for success

Part Three: Happy Endings

11 Debra 12 After Death

The soul Why we can’t talk of an afterlife

13 Fearing Death

You won’t be there when it happens You’ve already been there Death as deprivation A circle without a circumference Freud’s flower Eating the dead

14 How to Die Well

It’s your death Regrets

15 Living Now

Past, present and future Getting old A good-enough death Rethinking the afterlife

16 And in the End 17 And Now

List of Illustrations Notes List of Books Cited Acknowledgements Index About the Author Also by Derren Brown Copyright

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