Szendi Gábor: Intelligent Suffering: 1 unit of happiness
Imagine being well-fed, tanned, and healthy as you sit by the side of our swimming pool, with our happy children splashing in the water, our beautiful wife/handsome husband lying beside us, expensive cars in the garage, and the gardener raking the lawn in the background. If someone asked us right now if we are happy, what would we answer?
According to Gábor Szendi, the answer is not clear. In his new book, he tries to convince his readers that the material happiness promised by consumer society - even if we manage to achieve it - slips through our fingers like sand. True happiness almost always involves struggle, sweat, and restlessness: it is characterized by the feeling of oscillating between hope and doubt, between failures and successes, between being misunderstood and being recognized, between being ostracized and being accepted.
Happiness actually resides within all of us - we just need to recognize it and learn to live with it. Szendi Levente digs deep into the ancient roots of happiness, drawing on the findings of brain research, genetics, and anthropology to prove that true happiness means recognizing our own mission, taking responsibility for unfolding the possibilities hidden in our destiny, and finding our way back to the community that nourishes us. It is never too late to reach for the potentials within us, as the original image of happiness is burned into our brains, waiting to be rediscovered.
Maybe you're happy, you just don't know it?