Be ambitious; find positivity; look after your health, are some of the countless stories about how we ought to live our lives. These narratives can make our lives easier, and they might sometimes make us happier too. But they can also trap us and those around us in a bubble of imagination. In Happy Ever After, bestselling happiness expert Professor Paul Dolan draws on a variety of studies ranging over wellbeing, inequality, and discrimination to break the common myths about the sources of happiness. He shows the reality that there can be many unexpected paths to lasting fulfillment. Some of these might involve not going into higher education, choosing not to marry, rewarding acts rooted in self-interest and caring a little less about living forever. The author encourages the readers to free themselves from the myth of the perfect life to find their own route to happiness while living a life of worth.