If we lived in heaven, would we be happy?
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Book Introduction
The anthropologist who made Norway the happiest country,
What he realized on his last journey in life
How to Fix 'Broken Happiness'
- Highly recommended by Yoo Seong-ho, a forensic scientist at Seoul National University
- The first book published after the death of Thomas Hyland Eriksen, author of the best-selling book The Meaning of Life.
In the winter of 2024, Norway was plunged into sorrow.
This is because Professor Thomas Hyland Eriksen, a scholar and humanities communicator who was called the 'pride of Norway', has passed away.
Professor Eriksen, a social anthropologist who has studied 'humans' throughout his life, was diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer, a disease that few people survive for more than a year.
He had to concentrate on his research even in pain.
For the sake of his beloved humanity, he had a question that had to be answered.
What he realized on his last journey in life
How to Fix 'Broken Happiness'
- Highly recommended by Yoo Seong-ho, a forensic scientist at Seoul National University
- The first book published after the death of Thomas Hyland Eriksen, author of the best-selling book The Meaning of Life.
In the winter of 2024, Norway was plunged into sorrow.
This is because Professor Thomas Hyland Eriksen, a scholar and humanities communicator who was called the 'pride of Norway', has passed away.
Professor Eriksen, a social anthropologist who has studied 'humans' throughout his life, was diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer, a disease that few people survive for more than a year.
He had to concentrate on his research even in pain.
For the sake of his beloved humanity, he had a question that had to be answered.
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index
Chapter 1 | People Without Hope
Living happily is dull and boring.
We already live in heaven
Two things that are not in heaven
What we need is new hope
Chapter 2 | Why Everyone Looks Happy Except Me
Comparison determines life.
Compare me to people all over the world
Happiness comes from comparison, not achievement.
Pain comes twice as much as happiness
The illusion of being in the same competition
The perfect consumer is unhappy.
Chapter 3 | Why the Harder You Try, the Unhappier You Are
A generation with 17 times more experiences
What the choices that make you happy have in common
The curse of choice
Talents that are disappearing in today's world
You said I was wrong about pleasure
Chapter 4 | Why Competition Makes Us Happy
Two Perspectives on Success
Stability vs. Challenge
Everything is relatively relative
Chapter 5 | Why Buying Things Makes You Unhappy
Why do people change perfectly good phones?
The temptation to follow the trend
What the rich need more
Things that make you happy without limits
Carpe diem is meaningless
Chapter 6 | Happiness lies in the repetition of satisfaction and disappointment.
Slow time and fast time
The essence of travel is disappointment.
People who long for a different life
Happiness is determined by the frontal lobe.
Our dreams are too small and realistic
Chapter 7 | What Goals Lead Us to Happiness?
Criteria for choosing a field to excel in
For healthy ambition
Early achievement, rapid decline
3-foot syndrome
He died sailing alone.
Chapter 8 | Jokes About Happiness
The illusion that happiness can be counted
A question without an answer is empty.
Which is more valuable, a pushpin game or poetry?
Things You Can't Do with the Power of Positivity
Billions of Heavens Created by Happiness Studies
Happiness research is full of nonsense.
Chapter 9 | If We Live in Heaven, Would We Be Happy?
A prerequisite for happiness: becoming a necessary being.
Why Suicide Rates Are High in Rich Countries
Even if there is no vanilla in vanilla ice cream
God resembles a progressive human being
Chapter 10 | Interesting Answers to the Meaning of Life
Happiness is a positive side effect of life.
Because life can't be perfect
Chapter 11 | A Plan to Fix Broken Happiness
The next step in welfare and growth
The Perfect Social System for Happiness
Anything is possible
Living happily is dull and boring.
We already live in heaven
Two things that are not in heaven
What we need is new hope
Chapter 2 | Why Everyone Looks Happy Except Me
Comparison determines life.
Compare me to people all over the world
Happiness comes from comparison, not achievement.
Pain comes twice as much as happiness
The illusion of being in the same competition
The perfect consumer is unhappy.
Chapter 3 | Why the Harder You Try, the Unhappier You Are
A generation with 17 times more experiences
What the choices that make you happy have in common
The curse of choice
Talents that are disappearing in today's world
You said I was wrong about pleasure
Chapter 4 | Why Competition Makes Us Happy
Two Perspectives on Success
Stability vs. Challenge
Everything is relatively relative
Chapter 5 | Why Buying Things Makes You Unhappy
Why do people change perfectly good phones?
The temptation to follow the trend
What the rich need more
Things that make you happy without limits
Carpe diem is meaningless
Chapter 6 | Happiness lies in the repetition of satisfaction and disappointment.
Slow time and fast time
The essence of travel is disappointment.
People who long for a different life
Happiness is determined by the frontal lobe.
Our dreams are too small and realistic
Chapter 7 | What Goals Lead Us to Happiness?
Criteria for choosing a field to excel in
For healthy ambition
Early achievement, rapid decline
3-foot syndrome
He died sailing alone.
Chapter 8 | Jokes About Happiness
The illusion that happiness can be counted
A question without an answer is empty.
Which is more valuable, a pushpin game or poetry?
Things You Can't Do with the Power of Positivity
Billions of Heavens Created by Happiness Studies
Happiness research is full of nonsense.
Chapter 9 | If We Live in Heaven, Would We Be Happy?
A prerequisite for happiness: becoming a necessary being.
Why Suicide Rates Are High in Rich Countries
Even if there is no vanilla in vanilla ice cream
God resembles a progressive human being
Chapter 10 | Interesting Answers to the Meaning of Life
Happiness is a positive side effect of life.
Because life can't be perfect
Chapter 11 | A Plan to Fix Broken Happiness
The next step in welfare and growth
The Perfect Social System for Happiness
Anything is possible
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So, there must be a universal concept somewhere that can define what happiness is.
The question is just what it is.
--- p.15
Within the earthly paradise we live in, the snake exists in the form of 'absence of hope'.
People lose hope when they are extremely poor.
So, doesn't that mean even when we're extremely wealthy, hope is lost? Our dreams are so small, so personal, and so often so realistically achievable.
--- p.56
The answer to the question of how we live will vary depending on what we compare it to.
Also, your life is determined by who you compare yourself to.
That's a matter for us to decide.
But at the same time, it can also change depending on the circumstances and people around us that we cannot decide on our own.
--- p.70
Today's society seems to tell us to move as fast as possible, to accomplish as much as possible within a given timeframe.
Ultimately, we end up feeling dissatisfied with not having accomplished anything, because there is always something more urgently needed to be accomplished, and we cannot be free from it.
--- p.114
“The most important things in life cannot be bought with money,” he says.
I'm not just saying this, I mean it.
This does not mean that you can get the most important thing without giving money, but rather that you can get it by giving something in addition to money.
--- p.159
Anticipation feels sweetest just before it becomes reality.
The reason we feel disappointed during a trip is not because we don't like the destination, but because our expectations have become reality and we can no longer expect anything.
--- p.236
The focus of modern society is shifting elsewhere.
Now, the meaning of development no longer means material productivity.
But we don't know exactly what this new development means.
We cannot give it a precise name because we have never experienced anything similar in history.
--- p.294
To live a good life, we must also be exposed to classical philosophy, religion, literature, social studies, personal experience, and the history of different cultures.
Well… Having thought this far, I decided to move the pile of books I had been accumulating to a corner of the study.
--- p.342
Happiness is something like an unexpected positive side effect that you get while doing something else.
--- p.389
Every human being should be grateful for his or her own shortcomings in life.
Just as no one fully understands a truth until he has wrestled with it, no one fully understands an obstacle or a talent until he has suffered through it and seen the talent triumph over his shortcomings.
The question is just what it is.
--- p.15
Within the earthly paradise we live in, the snake exists in the form of 'absence of hope'.
People lose hope when they are extremely poor.
So, doesn't that mean even when we're extremely wealthy, hope is lost? Our dreams are so small, so personal, and so often so realistically achievable.
--- p.56
The answer to the question of how we live will vary depending on what we compare it to.
Also, your life is determined by who you compare yourself to.
That's a matter for us to decide.
But at the same time, it can also change depending on the circumstances and people around us that we cannot decide on our own.
--- p.70
Today's society seems to tell us to move as fast as possible, to accomplish as much as possible within a given timeframe.
Ultimately, we end up feeling dissatisfied with not having accomplished anything, because there is always something more urgently needed to be accomplished, and we cannot be free from it.
--- p.114
“The most important things in life cannot be bought with money,” he says.
I'm not just saying this, I mean it.
This does not mean that you can get the most important thing without giving money, but rather that you can get it by giving something in addition to money.
--- p.159
Anticipation feels sweetest just before it becomes reality.
The reason we feel disappointed during a trip is not because we don't like the destination, but because our expectations have become reality and we can no longer expect anything.
--- p.236
The focus of modern society is shifting elsewhere.
Now, the meaning of development no longer means material productivity.
But we don't know exactly what this new development means.
We cannot give it a precise name because we have never experienced anything similar in history.
--- p.294
To live a good life, we must also be exposed to classical philosophy, religion, literature, social studies, personal experience, and the history of different cultures.
Well… Having thought this far, I decided to move the pile of books I had been accumulating to a corner of the study.
--- p.342
Happiness is something like an unexpected positive side effect that you get while doing something else.
--- p.389
Every human being should be grateful for his or her own shortcomings in life.
Just as no one fully understands a truth until he has wrestled with it, no one fully understands an obstacle or a talent until he has suffered through it and seen the talent triumph over his shortcomings.
--- p.112
Publisher's Review
“What, exactly, is the condition that makes humans happy?”
Humanity is becoming richer faster than at any time in history.
Perhaps humanity has reached the 'heaven' it has longed for.
Yet, we are still struggling, lonely, and unhappy.
A survey of actual life satisfaction found that there was almost no difference in life satisfaction between people 50 years ago, when war was raging, and people today.
What happened? Professor Eriksen, facing death, slowed down and began to see things.
This book contains the new meaning of life and the origin of happiness that he realized.
The author's reflections will help us break free from the myth that happiness can be achieved through abundance and achievement, and lead us to a third path toward happiness.
“After reading this book, the face of someone I care about comes to mind.
“I also hoped that he would find happiness again.”
Is there an objective way to happiness?
We are becoming more and more accustomed to hearing the complaints of weary friends and news about an uncertain future, rather than happy news.
The more this happens, the more unhappiness becomes our daily life and we forget how to be happy.
Perhaps we are even forgetting the 'need for happiness'.
When I'm feeling so depressed, Professor Eriksen's question alone is comforting.
As we follow his lifelong quest for happiness, we are reminded of someone we cherish.
The reason we are not happy enough is because we do not yet know what happiness is.
Armchairs, sports cars, high self-esteem...
The existing happiness is wrong.
- A life where you can achieve your goals peacefully, away from competition.
- A life where you can gradually improve your standard of living through your own efforts and enjoy the abundance of what you desire.
- A life focused on the present, without worrying about an uncertain future
- A life of maintaining strong self-esteem without comparing yourself to others
These are all representative examples of a happy life, but unfortunately, they are not the answer to happiness.
The author does not rely solely on existing research or common sense in the field of happiness studies.
Although the author's specialty is social anthropology, he begins his exploration of happiness in a rather new field.
It delves into the source of happiness, moving from academic disciplines like the evolutionary biology of neo-Darwinians, the political philosophy of Bentham and Mill, and Thomas More's utopia and experimental communities to real-world examples of business management, fables, rock bands, and sketch comedy.
In the process, the happiness we took for granted will crumble, and we will learn new happiness.
To invite readers on a journey to explore happiness, author Professor Eriksen dissects happiness step by step.
First, in [Chapter 1], the current generation is diagnosed as ‘the most affluent generation, but one that is losing happiness.’
A key metaphor that runs throughout the book, the 'Big Bad Wolf Paradox', is introduced.
In [Chapter 2], [Chapter 3], [Chapter 4], and [Chapter 5], the reasons for unhappiness are analyzed using the keywords of ‘comparison’, ‘choice’, ‘competition’, and ‘marginal utility’ in each chapter.
Through each keyword, readers realize that the principles of happiness they vaguely held were wrong.
[Chapter 6] talks about the balance between disappointment and satisfaction, and [Chapter 7] talks about the balance between community spirit and competition spirit.
Balance here isn't just a sound-good solution.
It is a painful statement and a realistic practical solution.
In [Chapter 8], we examine existing research on happiness studies and examine their limitations and meaningful debates. In [Chapters 9] and [10], we review and integrate ‘happiness’ and ‘the meaning of life.’
The final chapter [Chapter 11] concludes the book by presenting a vision for the happiness that humanity needs as a community.
Humanity is becoming richer faster than at any time in history.
Perhaps humanity has reached the 'heaven' it has longed for.
Yet, we are still struggling, lonely, and unhappy.
A survey of actual life satisfaction found that there was almost no difference in life satisfaction between people 50 years ago, when war was raging, and people today.
What happened? Professor Eriksen, facing death, slowed down and began to see things.
This book contains the new meaning of life and the origin of happiness that he realized.
The author's reflections will help us break free from the myth that happiness can be achieved through abundance and achievement, and lead us to a third path toward happiness.
“After reading this book, the face of someone I care about comes to mind.
“I also hoped that he would find happiness again.”
Is there an objective way to happiness?
We are becoming more and more accustomed to hearing the complaints of weary friends and news about an uncertain future, rather than happy news.
The more this happens, the more unhappiness becomes our daily life and we forget how to be happy.
Perhaps we are even forgetting the 'need for happiness'.
When I'm feeling so depressed, Professor Eriksen's question alone is comforting.
As we follow his lifelong quest for happiness, we are reminded of someone we cherish.
The reason we are not happy enough is because we do not yet know what happiness is.
Armchairs, sports cars, high self-esteem...
The existing happiness is wrong.
- A life where you can achieve your goals peacefully, away from competition.
- A life where you can gradually improve your standard of living through your own efforts and enjoy the abundance of what you desire.
- A life focused on the present, without worrying about an uncertain future
- A life of maintaining strong self-esteem without comparing yourself to others
These are all representative examples of a happy life, but unfortunately, they are not the answer to happiness.
The author does not rely solely on existing research or common sense in the field of happiness studies.
Although the author's specialty is social anthropology, he begins his exploration of happiness in a rather new field.
It delves into the source of happiness, moving from academic disciplines like the evolutionary biology of neo-Darwinians, the political philosophy of Bentham and Mill, and Thomas More's utopia and experimental communities to real-world examples of business management, fables, rock bands, and sketch comedy.
In the process, the happiness we took for granted will crumble, and we will learn new happiness.
To invite readers on a journey to explore happiness, author Professor Eriksen dissects happiness step by step.
First, in [Chapter 1], the current generation is diagnosed as ‘the most affluent generation, but one that is losing happiness.’
A key metaphor that runs throughout the book, the 'Big Bad Wolf Paradox', is introduced.
In [Chapter 2], [Chapter 3], [Chapter 4], and [Chapter 5], the reasons for unhappiness are analyzed using the keywords of ‘comparison’, ‘choice’, ‘competition’, and ‘marginal utility’ in each chapter.
Through each keyword, readers realize that the principles of happiness they vaguely held were wrong.
[Chapter 6] talks about the balance between disappointment and satisfaction, and [Chapter 7] talks about the balance between community spirit and competition spirit.
Balance here isn't just a sound-good solution.
It is a painful statement and a realistic practical solution.
In [Chapter 8], we examine existing research on happiness studies and examine their limitations and meaningful debates. In [Chapters 9] and [10], we review and integrate ‘happiness’ and ‘the meaning of life.’
The final chapter [Chapter 11] concludes the book by presenting a vision for the happiness that humanity needs as a community.
GOODS SPECIFICS
- Date of issue: March 12, 2025
- Page count, weight, size: 424 pages | 737g | 137*210*39mm
- ISBN13: 9791198999146
- ISBN10: 1198999144
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