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'

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.

 

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