The Antidote explains everything that's wrong with positivity-based self-help advice, and what we should do instead to feel and live with contentment.

Our mood is highly dependent on our environment and can fluctuate greatly throughout a single day – but maybe that's the problem.

Everyone wants to achieve 'happiness.' Yet, despite this desire, rare are the ones who declare having truly found it.

More conversations and books about happiness might even be inversely correlated with experienced happiness.

In other words: we're all looking for it, but no one seems to find it.

In The Anditote, Oliver Burkeman unravels the mystery of the happiness paradox.

As a journalist who's spent years writing about happiness and self-help, Burkeman draws on an eclectic body of evidence from history, business, philosophy, psychology, and expert interviews to make his case against adopting a classic positivity mindset.

Maybe forcing ourselves to see the glass half full isn't the solution, after all.