Goodreads asked Neil Pasricha:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Neil Pasricha My wife told me she was pregnant on the flight home from our honeymoon.

I mean, on the actual airplane. She bought the pregnancy test on the layover home! We started talking about children and she said "I just want my kids to be happy." And I was like, "That's impossible! You can't make a kid happy. You can't even make yourself happy."

There was a pause. A tension. And then she said, "You're totally wrong. You can control your happiness and it affects people around you. Including your kids."

When we landed back home I started researching happiness. That research took me deep into it and I ended up writing a 300-page letter to my (at that time) unborn child on how to live a happy life.

That letter is The Happiness Equation. My latest book.

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