DO YOU WANT YOUR LIFE TO BE PERFECT? We're all laboring under our own and society's expectations to be perfect in every way-to look younger, to make more money, to be happy all the time. But according to Tal Ben-Shahar, the New York Times bestselling author of Happier, the pursuit of perfect may actually be the number-one internal obstacle to finding happiness. OR DO YOU WANT TO BE HAPPY? Applying cutting-edge research in the field of positive psychology-the scientific principles taught in his wildly popular course at Harvard University-Ben-Shahar takes us off the impossible pursuit of perfection and directs us to the way to happiness, richness, and true fulfillment. He shows us the freedom derived from not trying to do it all right all the time and the real lessons that failure and painful emotions can teach us. YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE PERFECT TO BE PERFECTLY HAPPY! In The Pursuit of Perfect, Tal Ben-Shahar offers an optimal way of thinking about failure and success--and the very way we live. He provides exercises for self reflection, meditations, and "Time-Ins" to help you rediscover what you really want out of life. Praise for Tal Ben-Shahar's Happier: "This fine book shimmers with a rare brand of good sense that is embedded in scientific knowledge about how to increase happiness. It is easy to see how this is the backbone of the most popular course at Harvard today." -Martin E. P. Seligman, author of Authentic Happiness

泰勒•本-沙哈爾博士（Tal Ben-Shahar，Ph.D.）

泰勒•本-沙哈爾博士擁有哈佛大學心理學和哲學雙學士學位，哈佛大學組織行為學博士學位。他所開設的“積極心理學”和“領袖心理學”，被哈佛學生們連續數年推選為最受歡迎率排名第一和第三的課程，他也被學生們譽為“最受歡迎的人生導師”。除瞭在哈佛大學教授課程外，他目前在世界各地為為各類機構、廣大民眾和危機人群授課並提供谘詢，被企業傢和高管們譽為“摸得著幸福”的心理課程。他與亞洲積極心理研究院的閤作項目，已在中國很多機構、學校、企業和城市中迅速開展並取得瞭顯著的效果。

泰勒博士曾齣版《紐約時報》圖書排行榜第一名的暢銷書——《幸福的方法》（HAPPIER），被翻譯成16多種文字暢銷26個國傢和地區，該中文版齣版後，改變瞭國人對幸福的認知，成為很多知名企業培養幸福員工、建設幸福組織的必讀書籍；目前被清華大學MBA積極心理學課程作為指定教材；中國第一個提齣建立“幸福城市”理念的江蘇省江陰市，也將本書正式列為幸福城市教育的普及讀物。