We all want to be happy, but if we ask what happiness is, or what causes it, the answers are not always easy to find. Yet, if this is such an important subject for us, why do we understand so little about it? This book explores the nature and value of happiness, looking at questions such as - can money buy happiness; who are the happily married; is good health linked to happiness; why is work so important for well-being and is happiness rare? Using the results of hundreds of recent studies, the author explores some of the popular myths about happiness which so many of us share. He then identifies those key inner traits which do enable it to grow and outlines a number of practical steps we can all take to discover greater peace and joy.