The Happiness Code: How to understand your past and live a meaningful and joyful present

by Jordan Grumet

Are you running yourself ragged in the pursuit of happiness, only to find the goal posts keep moving?

In The Happiness Code, you will uncover the revolutionary reason behind your relentless pursuit of success. With a profound understanding of both medicine and finance, Dr. Jordan Grumet guides us through an interrogation of our deep-seated, often subconscious, core beliefs which influence our decisions and our lives. This belief system is what drives your relentless pursuit of success and happiness, as you subconsciously chase a way to validate the meaning you’ve attached to your past.

This book offers a powerful, step-by-step roadmap to stop the cycles of burnout, overachievement, and unfulfilled desire. Using practical exercises rooted in narrative therapy and cognitive behavioral techniques, you'll discover how to rewrite your personal history, rewire your brain's fear response, and finally feel like you are already enough.

The Happiness Code is your antidote to hustle culture, offering the keys to lasting happiness and grounding by cultivating persistence, not perfection.

Stop trying to outrun your past and start living a life where true fulfillment isn't an arrival, but an endless state of being.

Kindle Edition

Expected publication March 9, 2027

About the author

Almost daily, I write something to publicly share, a practice adopted long before I became a doctor of Internal Medicine. Readers of my articles and books access first-hand accounts of my personal and professional struggles, joys, sorrows, shortcomings and intrinsic rewards.

My ever-widening exposure to reading and listening audiences includes the following highlights:

• In My Humble Opinion.blogspot.com. Most weeks I post multiple articles on this venue.
• My writing is featured on social media's leading physician website KevinMD.com.
• Bimonthly, I write articles for The Medical Bag.com.
• Northern MSW: Advocacy, Aging, Healthcare & Social Work Issues, a Canadian website moderated by Victoria Brewster, MSW, regularly presents my essays.
• The Lives You Touch Publications released my chapbook of poetry, Primary Care, in Winter 2012, and with the editorial assistance of CreateWrite Enterprises I published my first book of short stories and essays in early 2015: I Am Your Doctor and This Is My Humble Opinion.

Born in Evanston, Illinois, in 1973, my interest in becoming a doctor ignited when my father, an oncologist, died unexpectedly in the prime of life. This profound and life-shaping loss colors my self-reflective writing and manifests as my "genetic destiny" to practice medicine.

In January 2014, after much soul-searching, I launched my own concierge-style, home-based medical practice.