Happiness Hypothesis: Ask The Author

Author Q&A: Jonathan Haidt talks about elephants, business, and, of course, happiness. Jonathan Haidt has a knack for taking complicated and esoteric material — religious history, science, philosophy, and the like — and making it interesting. To top things off, he can write about a saccharine subject for 300...

Discussing The Happiness Hypothesis

“Why do some people find happiness, satisfaction, and fulfillment and others don’t?  The answer is in 2,500 years of wisdom, which Jonathan Haidt revisits and brings into the 21st century for all of us to use in our own lives.” — Acton teacher Jeff Sandefer It’s time to start...

Reflecting On The Happiness Hypothesis

Ask these thought-provoking questions as you read and reflect on the Acton Book Club’s first selection. We’ve been reading the Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Haidt. If you’ve been following along at home, here are some questions to think about. These are more for personal reflection. If you want to...

The Acton Book Club Will Be Reading The Happiness Hypothesis This June

We’re excited to announce that our first selection for the Acton Book Club will be The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom by Jonathan Haidt. He uses both classical philosophy (everyone from Buddha to Plato) and modern research to examine happiness and explore the obstacles that we,...