You must be completely relaxed and clear your mind, dive into the book , I found it easy reading, do plenty of research on the subject, I think Richard Layard should of broken the subject down even finer by finding why some people with more money or less money are unhappy, What is the reason particularly are they unhappy, what is the exact thing that they are unhappy about, it sounds like it's not the money that's the problem, so what is the exact thing , They need to pin-point the exact reason, is it an unhappy family that can't get along with each other