Happy Ever After: Escaping The Myth of The Perfect Life Audiobook (Free)

Penguin presents the audiobook model of Happy Ever After written and read by Paul Dolan.

Get a good education, achieve success, get married, have got kids and look after your health. This is what we’re told will make us content. But what if these tales are doing even more harm than good?

In Happy Ever After, bestselling happiness expert Teacher Paul Dolan pulls on groundbreaking research and data to bust the common myths about happiness and display that the road to fulfilment is actually far more unpredicted than we thought. With straight-talking wisdom, he invites us to reappraise our beliefs, free our minds in the ‘narrative traps’ of standard wisdom and create our own version of the nice life, based on maximising positive, meaningful experiences that may generate new cultural benefits – not least greater tolerance for different ways of life.

Joy isn’t what you’re told. It’s what you do.