A powerful, profound, and original invitation to transform our tyrannical mindset into an instrument for happiness.

One day, Jonathan, a Wall Street golden boy, party animal, and recreational drug user, packs it all in and heads off in search of happiness. Over a 3-year period, he seeks out thinkers and spiritual masters from around the world, learns about meditation, and discovers shamanism. He seeks solutions to his unhappiness in ancestral wisdom, Buddhism, and ancient philosophy, as well as scientific fields such as neurology and positive and cognitive psychology. In witty prose, this book shakes up literary genres as much as it does readers' minds.