En defensa de la infelicidad

Can you measure happiness? As surprising as it sounds, the answer is yes. At the Copenhagen Happiness Research Institute they have been doing it since 2012. But what is the use of measuring it? And, most importantly, is it possible to achieve it? Alejandro Cencerrado has been recording his own happiness for sixteen years, measuring it from 0 to 10, and analyzing it with the most sophisticated statistical tools. Starting from this experience and from his work as an analyst at the Copenhagen Happiness Institute, he tries to understand what makes us more or less happy as individuals and as a society. In defense of unhappiness, he teaches us his method and how to apply it on a daily basis, and also invites us to reflect on the chiaroscuro that surrounds this transcendental issue for the human being and that fully affects the very foundations of our call « welfare society. A unique and revealing book in which disciplines as diverse and close as psychology, sociology and anthropology are intertwined to offer us, through a scientific analysis, a new look at the most ancient aspiration of the human being.