Happiness across Borders

Why do Scandinavians swear by "lagom," Why do Italians embrace la dolce vita while Americans glorify hustle till burnout? Why do South Koreans chase collective success under crushing pressure, and yet still rank happiness differently than you'd ever expect?

Happiness Across Borders rips the smiley-face sticker off Western self-help and takes you on a honest, eye-opening journey through the world's most unexpected ideas of joy. From Japanese ikigai to the German Schadenfreude, this book uncovers the truths, contradictions, and hidden traps of how different cultures actually define and live happiness-and what you can steal from them to finally live your own damn life, not the one Social Media told you to want.

Raw, bold, and laced with sharp wit, this book doesn't promise easy answers, but it does promise real ones. If you're tired of bubble-bath wellness and fake positivity, and ready to find out what happiness really means across the globe (and maybe for you too), then this is the book your soul's been begging for.

Because happiness doesn't have one language. It has thousands.

And it's time you learned to speak a few.