François Lelord

Hector and the Search for Happiness

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Can we learn how to be happy? Hector is a successful young psychiatrist. He's very good at treating patients in real need of his help. But many people he sees have no health problems: they're just deeply dissatisfied with their lives. Hector can't do much for them, and it's beginning to depress him. So when a patient tells him he looks in need of a holiday, Hector decides to set off round the world to find out what makes people everywhere happy (and sad), and whether there is such a thing as the secret of true happiness…
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156 printed pages
Original publication
2010
Publication year
2010
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    Rich values through storytelling (use travelling as the hero) and make the content stronger! Absolutely love and captivated by this book!

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  • Atika Gumilarhas quoted3 years ago
    ‘He who hunts must start again each day, while he who cultivates can watch his rice growing.’
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    But if one is overly concerned with one’s happiness, one risks increasing the chances of being unhappy
  • Atika Gumilarhas quoted3 years ago
    Lesson no. 20: Happiness is a certain way of seeing things.

    Lesson no. 13: Happiness is feeling useful to others.

    Lesson no. 10: Happiness is doing a job you love.

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