Labenz

We live longer, safer, and more comfortably than any generation before us.
And yet many people feel as if life is slipping away.

We chase money to buy time.
We work so that we can be free someday.
We plan for a better tomorrow-and lose today in the process.

The Paradox of Happiness confronts an uncomfortable question:
Why do we so rarely feel truly free in a world full of possibilities?

Blending philosophical reflection with insights from psychology and neuroscience, this book shows why happiness often does not arise where we look for it: in possessions, achievement, or status-and why even those who ＂have achieved everything＂ often keep running instead of finally arriving.

Among other things, the book explores questions such as:

• Why does time feel faster with every passing year?

• Why do we so often confuse freedom with control and optimization?

• How does the feeling of ＂enough＂ emerge-and why is it so rare?

• What makes a life fulfilling once external goals have been reached?

• Why can the pursuit of freedom cost us the very thing we want to gain?

This is not a typical self-help book.
No step-by-step instructions, no empty promises-just an invitation to think: about time, money, freedom, and what it means to live a fulfilling life in a world that keeps getting faster.

For everyone who doesn’t just want to optimize - but wants to truly live again.