Ask a million people to define happiness, and you get a million answers. They won't all be good answers, or at least the people who give you these answers won't be as happy as they wish they could be. After all, living in the most advanced society the world has ever seen, most people are still negative, depressed, and deal with a host of other problems that prevent them from being truly happy. Current literature does not have a solution to this problem either, as it does not address how all the different bits of happiness advice come together. With this, Optimal Happiness is the first model that combines different pieces of happiness advice and clearly states what we need to do to reach our maximum happiness potential today and how to maintain it forever.


Not only do we want to be happy, but also we want to be the happiest we can be. However, traditional psychology studies predominantly the negative side of emotional wellbeing and positive psychology the positive emotions, which leaves Optimal Happiness with the task of addressing the question of happiness maximisation and optimisation.