Beyond Happy: How to rethink happiness and find fulfilment

A special issue episode where regular host Dr Mark Fabian is on the other side of the microphone being interviewed by @economeager about his new book -  Beyond Happy: How to rethink happiness and find fulfilment. It is out today in the United Kingdom. Here's a summary of the book: 

A comprehensive guide to cultivating wellbeing, combining cutting edge science and primordial folk wisdom.

Mark Fabian, one of the most exhilarating thinkers working on wellbeing today, presents a revolutionary approach to understanding why there’s more to life than the pursuit of happiness.

Beyond Happy explores how evolution has wired us to keep happiness just out of reach, leaving us perpetually stuck on a happiness treadmill. Instead of striving to escape it, the book argues, we should focus on making the treadmill a place we want to be. Finding this wellbeing begins with listening to our emotions, discovering intrinsic motivation and pursuing our authentic values. Fabian coaches you through this process of self-actualisation. Wellbeing, however, is not solely an individual pursuit – it is something we cultivate together. And so Beyond Happy also provides insights into enhancing your emotional intelligence, building relationships on care, and nurturing a karmic community.

Most profoundly, Beyond Happy shows the way out of nihilism – the pervasive sense that life on the treadmill is purposeless and incoherent. To escape this despair, we must develop a moral compass. To heal the toxicity of our acrimonious politics, we need to rediscover the joy of sharing and celebrating what we love.

Delivered with an entertaining mix of academic precision, a podcaster’s knack for storytelling, and the down-to-earth panache Australians are known for, Beyond Happy is a one-stop shop to everything you need to know about the good life.

Find it on Waterstones, Amazon, or your high street book store in the United Kingdom or Australia from July: 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Beyond-Happy-Mark-Fabian/dp/1835010490

Check out Economeager's website:

https://sites.google.com/view/rachaelmeager/home

And especially their blog!

https://rottenandgood.substack.com/

Ian McGilchrist's book on ways to truth

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Matter-Things-Brains-Delusions-Unmaking/dp/1914568060

Ziz and the Zizzians:

https://www.theguardian.com/global/ng-interactive/2025/mar/05/zizians-artificial-intelligence

Showers and Zeigler Hill on multiple selves:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17995462/

Haidt's righteous mind:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Righteous-Mind-Divided-Politics-Religion/dp/0141039167

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Lotus