Wouldn’t it be great if we could guarantee our children’s happiness? Virtually all parents and educators want to raise children who become highly productive, culturally aware, and emotionally secure adults. Yet so many children head into adolescence and young adulthood filled with angst and doubt about the meaning and direction of their lives.

Realistically, there is no way we can guarantee anyone’s happiness, including that of our own children. However, we can provide tools to help them achieve greater happiness on their own. This book, which is based on the Brain Education (BE) training system, places the source of happiness in the brain, not in external things, such as academic or financial success. It is based on the notion that happy, confident people are more likely to be more successful in all areas of life.

Brain-based models of education are becoming increasingly popular, perhaps because today’s children will be required to use their brains as no other generation before them. As the population has soared, the human world has in many ways shrunk, bringing people closer together through the technologies of communication and transportation. John Donne said long ago that “no man is an island,” but this may be truer today than ever before. In the twenty-first century, one could also contend that “no culture is an island,” as peoples merge and interact in ways unique in human history. This trend has brought great blessings and many challenges to the human condition. Read more from Ilchi Lee books.