Harvard Business School has been attracting glowing reports for its Leadership and Happiness class, taught by the social scientist Arthur Brooks. The seven-week programme teaches its whizz-kids to understand the roots of their own fulfilment so as to “lead others in a way that increases happiness”. The course has been heavily over-subscribed, its graduates dizzy with talk of massage and therapy dogs.
The happiness industry is wrong – feeling sad is just part of the package
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'We may fetishise contentment as a society, but so often what is meant by that is far from being the most interesting way to live'