Happiness and Humans

Freedom to Be Happy explores the association between individual happiness and group performance at work. The book introduces happiness philosophers, reviews the evidence, and interviews practitioners on the frontline who are building thriving work cultures.

The book uses data, neuroscience, quantum physics, and academic research in a really accessible, unique, fun, and human way.

Subjects include money and happiness, motivation, happiness, HR, marketing, employee happiness, happiness philosophy, the Stoics, the history of happiness, employee engagement, diversity and inclusion, equality, and the future of work.

Research interviews for this book are live on the Happiness and Humans podcast.

The objective of this book is to empower the listener to make a very strong case that the happiness of human beings is a very serious business metric.

Chapters

1. Why happiness?
2. What is happiness?
3. Can money make you happy?
4. Is happiness nature or nurture?
5. Is happiness a fluffy metric?
6. Discovering happiness
7. Scaling happiness
8. Happiness biology and chemistry
9. Happiness practical tips
10. Happiness at work: contemporary philosophy and evidence
11. Employee happiness: research and evidence
12. Happiness: practitioners and evidence
13. The Happiness Index data
14. Happiness across the globe
15. The neuroscience of happiness
16. Introducing the quantum way
17. Freedom to be happy: the business case for happiness
18. The Happiness and Humans Community Charter