Book Rec of the Day 3/9/2007

FOR ARGUMENT’S SAKE

Is it true that what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger?* Haidt, a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia, takes wisdom like this that has been handed down from philosophers and grandmothers, and subjects it to scientific scrutiny. His results? Grandma was right! Here’s why.

THE HAPPINESS HYPOTHESIS, by Jonathan Haidt (Basic Books, 2005)

*Yes: Happiness requires challenges. And Haidt offers examples as proof.