This book isn't about being happy all the time, but about finding and maintaining a healthy emotional equilibrium. Nothing in this book is new, necessarily, it's just all in one place with scientific study citations and an actual 8 week plan at the end, so it's more useful. It's a hair on the dry side, as Dr. Weil is more of an academic personality than a comedian, but it wasn't too bad.

Most if it was pretty good, but there is a pervading fear of technology throughout the book. I'm all for limiting technology time, but I felt it to be a bit excessive. Other than that, it was about teaching good, old-fashioned values to kids with explanations of why they were important and a few descriptions of how to do it.

I enjoyed reading this, probably because I agree with most of what he said, but I had to take points away. The whole book is his opinion presented as fact, with no statistics or evidence to be found anywhere. As a conversation about thoughts on teaching, I like it. As a book to discuss the flaws in the current education system and present ways to correct the deficiencies, it fell short.