Roman Russo's Blog

My next words are the result of several discussions, which may sound ambiguous on one side, yet hold something valuable and universal on the other: salvation from unhappiness, and the path to happiness. As such, my life, career, blogging, book writing, coaching business, and perpetual desire to be coached are driven by a specific goal—not […]

Welcome to the United States of America, the land of opportunity, freedom, and the American dream, the #1 largest economy in the world in terms of GDP ($28.78 trillion USD in 2024) and GDP per capita ($66,682.61 in the same year), the economy is so significant that any economic effects ripple across the rest of […]

As you may know, I love sci-fi TV series and movies, partially because they discuss utopian and dystopian concepts. In fact, as far as dystopian concepts are concerned, there are an infinite number of permutations of what-if scenarios, explaining in excruciating detail how people would adapt and react to these situations. People like me love […]

After reading my book, one of my friends correctly pointed out that I never addressed the question of love and how it compares to happiness. I admit it’s a clear oversight on my part, which I will fix in the next book edition. In my defense, I argued that since happiness, by definition, encompasses all […]

As a happiness author, I decided to review other happiness books, which is why today I re-read The Pursuit of Happiness: A History from the Greeks to the Present by Darrin McMahon. Honestly, I didn’t like this book as I couldn’t keep my eyes open past chapter 1. However, while it is a negative opinion […]

An enterprise client of Optimal Happiness hired me to improve corporate happiness, a trendy corporate training approach aimed at promoting well-being within a company and thereby increasing corporate productivity. I discovered that their company was already doing many things right but needed a few small yet important adjustments. After all, the CEO already considered himself […]

In Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), there is a powerful concept that involves examining the best-performing employees in a company to understand how their work differs from that of less productive employees, and then teaching these differences to other employees to help improve overall corporate performance while requiring relatively minimal investment in corporate growth. Unfortunately, this approach […]

So the world isn’t / wasn’t fair to you. How many people can agree with this statement? I certainly can, as when I was young, my immediate reaction was to: (1) Wait for the world to give me everything on a silver platter. When this didn’t happen, or rather happened but only to a certain […]

Recently, I fell in love with a fictional character named Arcturus Mengsk, and I was astonished by how much I learned from him about happiness, success, and failure through his life story, which is precisely why I decided to write about him. You can recognize Arcturus Mengsk if you’ve played the sci-fi video game StarCraft, […]

Failure is often perceived as negative. However, some argue that there is no such thing as bad publicity. After all, people still hear about you and your product, and not everyone views your failure in a negative light. Just consider Trump. Despite being surrounded by a great deal of negative publicity, he is arguably viewed […]