Dr. Dan Baker has spent a lifetime helping people learn to be happy. Science has shown that the root of unhappiness lies in archaic brain impulses that are now obsolete. We don't need the neurological signals of fear and stress that were vital to early man's survival to make it through a day at the office, but we still have them. Understanding this and learning how to avoid what Dr. Baker calls the Happiness Traps are the first steps in retraining our reactions and, eventually, our brain chemistry. Dr. Baker gives us the Happiness Tools we can use to avoid the traps and provides countless stories of clients and patients who learned to be happy. Most people are already leading happy lives-they simply don't recognize it. And since happy people live longer, healthier lives and accomplish much more than the unhappy, that's a needless tragedy. Dr. Baker's practical self-help approach translates the latest findings from the explosively growing school of positive psychology and takes exception with the cynical state of psychotherapy today. Identifying the sources of our unhappiness or neurosis is good, but it doesn't -really resolve anything. What Happy People Know takes the reader to the next step: accepting the past and actively moving forward with a future of your own design and a clear understanding of how to be happy.