The Bubble of Happiness

By Boris Kriger

Why are some people who suffer terribly not unhappy - while others, whose lives look perfectly comfortable, are miserable?
In this groundbreaking book, Boris Kriger reveals a single mechanism that explains most human unhappiness: a mental act he calls negative self-determination - the moment when your mind takes a bounded experience of pain and converts it into an unbounded verdict about who you are. "This hurts" becomes "I am broken." "I failed" becomes "I am a failure." "She left" becomes "I am unlovable."
Drawing on Stoic philosophy, Buddhist psychology, predictive neuroscience, and modern clinical research, Kriger shows that suffering and unhappiness are not the same thing - and that the space between them is the most important territory in human life. Suffering is biologically obligate. Unhappiness is cognitively facultative. And the gap between the two is where freedom lives.
Warm, lucid, and deeply humane, The Bubble of Happiness is a book that changes how you see your own mind - and, in changing that, changes what your mind can do to you.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GNKNSK7W
• ISBN13: 9798248439119
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"