CHAPTER 2Understanding Happiness
I want you to be happy. That may sound like a lofty dream or a bad sales pitch, but it's true. The happier people are, the better the world will be for everyone. We already know what happens when the world is full of fear, anger, and hate so it's important to make as many people happy as possible starting with you.
So this book is my way of helping make the world a better place for me and my family, and in the process, for you, your family, and everyone you care about. We're in this together and we can do this together. If you want to be happy, here's a secret.
I can help you.
Most people think I'm happy because I'm an entrepreneur who has started four different companies and sold my third one, Bharosa, to Oracle in 2007 for millions of dollars. Other people think I'm happy because I'm a professor teaching business classes at the University of San Francisco. Yet other people think I'm happy because I wrote the book Strategic Entrepreneurship: Shattering the Start-Up Entrepreneurial Myth, which is required reading for the MBA program at several business schools including the University of California, Berkeley. Still others think I must be happy because I'm an inventor with more than one hundred patents to my name.
Yet none of this is important. I'm happy because I'm a husband to a wonderful wife, and a father to a lovable daughter. I'm also a son to my parents, and close friends with numerous people I've had the fortune to know over the years. ...
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