I'm a self-help book junkie. Don't get me wrong; my life's perfect, I'm perfect; I only pick up self-help books because I'm stealing material for my "The Better You™" seminar. I picked up Stumbling on Happiness because it sounded like what might be a great self-help book I could "adapt" for the seminar; it turned out to be a book on psychology that offers explanations to why we suck at predicting what would make us happy. We have the ability to imagine the future and thus think we know what will make us happy but apparently our imagination can be misguided.

I now know why I "imagined" it would be a good idea to have sponge cake topped with helpings of custard cream after a heavy lunch but how would I adapt that to my self-help seminar?

I would tell attendees at The Better You™ seminar to stop predicting what will make them happy and quote Dale Carnegie who once said, "we are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today". There, boom - I have on good authority (Dale Carnegie is the master self-help purveyor after all) that what I have to say is the best self-help advice ever. My brilliance to the rescue, as always.