The Happiness Blueprint: What Evolution Actually Built Your Joy For

Your brain was not built for happiness. It was built for survival. Happiness was the reward it used to keep you alive - and it was never designed to last. >In The Happiness Blueprint, Peter Burchardt applies the evolutionary framework from Designed to Feel to the question everyone actually wants answered: how do I become happier? The answer is not what the self-help industry sells you. It is older, simpler, and harder. Starting from evolution - not psychology, not philosophy, and definitely not Instagram - this book reveals what happiness actually is, why your brain seems to work against you, and what the science says about building a life that genuinely works. >Part II: The Misfires - The comparison trap, the hedonic treadmill, the anxiety factory, the paradox of choice, and the loneliness epidemic. Part III: The Blueprint - Movement, nutrition, tribe, work, stillness, environment, awe, and the practice of enough. Part IV: The Meaning - The deepest currency of all, and why no amount of optimisation can replace it. >From the author of Designed to Feel.

Pages: 316, Paperback, Independently published