"I thought it would take one year, not six, and I didn't know that it would change my life," Mr. 23 in the global happiness survey cited in the newspaper article. Both men were also puzzled by the fact that the United States – the country that has the pursuit of happiness in its constitution – ranked No. "Tom understood the paradox of having lots of money and not really being happy," says Mr. Ghengis Blues) to ask if he was interested in investigating the idea of well-being. Belic, an Academy-Award-nominated documentary director ( Tom Shadyac, prolific comedy director ofĪce Ventura: Pet Detective, Liar, Liar, The Nutty Professor andīruce Almighty, among others, read an article about happiness in the The New York Times and called up his friend, Mr. Happy began six years ago with a Hollywood-scale disillusionment. And best of all, the viewing of a film happens in a group, which facilitates discussion afterward. You can absorb all the most important happiness findings without wading through a meticulously researched book. Film has always been the most accessible of media, and this documentary does an excellent job of combining bona fide scientific research with real-life stories of people who have found happiness in ways that subvert the often-unchallenged cultural script of money, car, house and holidays. It's an evangelical mission to the people who made it. "And we couldn't put it in the hands of people who didn't understand it." "The offers clearly didn't see the value of the project," says Roko Belic, the film's director. That method of distribution – through word of mouth, social media, independent theatres and a little help from Lululemon (more on that later) – came about because the documentary failed to pick up a satisfactory distribution deal even though it won awards at several small film festivals last year. The people behind the film came up with the idea of designating a World Happy Day to help ignite a grassroots movement for the documentary, in part by proclaiming it's a movement even before it becomes a fully fledged one. (I didn't know, either, if that makes you feel any better.) 11, people in more than 600 locations in 60 countries and on seven continents, including Antarctica, got together to watch a screening of a documentary called Which explains why there's a new movie about happiness that is making its way around the planet. And to not want happiness is like – yup, you guessed it – not wanting sex.
It's a burgeoning field of scientific study. There are new books on how to get more of it almost every month.
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