According to Gregg Easterbrook, "The men and women at middle-class
standards or above in the United States and European Union now live better
than 99.4 percent of the human beings who have ever existed," including
most of the royalty of history. And yet, we are no happier. How can this
be?

We explore afflictions such as: choice anxiety, abundance denial, "call and
raise the Joneses," collapse anxiety, the revolution of satisfied
expectations, and meaning want. We also dive into their powerful antidotes:
forgiveness, gratitude and optimism, as well as Gregg's earlier work on why
talent is overrated (and the two ingredients to strive for instead).