Do you want your life to be perfect?

We're all laboring under our own and society's expectations to be perfect in every way-to look younger, to make more money, to be happy all the time. But according to Tal Ben-Shahar, the New York Times bestselling author of Happier , the pursuit of perfect may actually be the number-one internal obstacle to finding happiness.

Or do you want to be happy?

Applying cutting-edge research in the field of positive psychology—the scientific principles taught in his wildly popular course at Harvard University—Ben-Shahar takes us off the impossible pursuit of perfection and directs us to the way to happiness, richness, and true fulfillment. He shows us the freedom derived from not trying to do it all right all the time and the real lessons that failure and painful emotions can teach us.

You don't have to be perfect to be perfectly happy!

In The Pursuit of Perfect , Tal Ben-Shahar offers an optimal way of thinking about failure and success—and the very way we live. He provides exercises for self reflection, meditations, and “Time-Ins” to help you rediscover what you really want out of life.

泰勒•本-沙哈尔博士（Tal Ben-Shahar，Ph.D.）

泰勒•本-沙哈尔博士拥有哈佛大学心理学和哲学双学士学位，哈佛大学组织行为学博士学位。他所开设的“积极心理学”和“领袖心理学”，被哈佛学生们连续数年推选为最受欢迎率排名第一和第三的课程，他也被学生们誉为“最受欢迎的人生导师”。除了在哈佛大学教授课程外，他目前在世界各地为为各类机构、广大民众和危机人群授课并提供咨询，被企业家和高管们誉为“摸得着幸福”的心理课程。他与亚洲积极心理研究院的合作项目，已在中国很多机构、学校、企业和城市中迅速开展并取得了显著的效果。

泰勒博士曾出版《纽约时报》图书排行榜第一名的畅销书——《幸福的方法》（HAPPIER），被翻译成16多种文字畅销26个国家和地区，该中文版出版后，改变了国人对幸福的认知，成为很多知名企业培养幸福员工、建设幸福组织的必读书籍；目前被清华大学MBA积极心理学课程作为指定教材；中国第一个提出建立“幸福城市”理念的江苏省江阴市，也将本书正式列为幸福城市教育的普及读物。