Eric Weiner

People are constantly trying to define what happiness is and if you are happy or not, but have you ever wondered where it is? In Eric Weiners humorous travel memoir, The Geography of Bliss (335 pages),he travels to several countries, including The Netherlands, Switzerland, Bhutan, Qatar, Iceland, Moldova, Thailand, Great Britain, India, and America, in search for where one can find true contentment. In every location, he observes several different ways those countries have become some of the…

Eric Weiner known as a journalist back in 1960s. He had been to a lot of countries and experienced their cultures and mostly focus on happiness between them. In "The Geography of Bliss", the book illustrates the countries ranking in happiness, the cultural traits of each one, how happiness affect the society and on every aspect of life in Netherland, Switzerland, Bhutan and Qatar. Happiness is known as the living enjoyment when we satisfy about our life and when we do whatever we want that…

Geography of Bliss, author Eric Weiner proves that countries are happy for different reasons. In particular, he does this in his chapters on Bhutan, Iceland, and Great Britain. In Bhutan, happiness comes from attention to detail, and in Great Britain, it is a work in progress. The Icelandish people are happy because they are not afraid of failure and because they are united. By noting these cultural differences, Weiner shows that happiness is different for everyone. Weiner immediately…

“We are shaped not only by our current geography but by our ancestral one as well" (Weiner 112). There are different factors that affect happiness and it is rooted from where you spent most of your life. Different countries have different culture. People who live in America will not be as happy as the one who lived in Moldova. In Eric Weiner 's, book The Geography of Bliss. He was searching for data of happiness. He conduct a study on how people in different countries understand and measure…

and a place. For some people happiness is doing what you love as long as you’re surrounded by people that you love. But for others happiness is more superficial and could simply be a mundane destination such as Maui, Hawaii. Both Susan Orleans and Eric Wiener in their books, My Kind of Place and The Geography of Bliss expose what it means to be happy and if happiness is found or achieved. These works are similar in that they both follow two different adults on their expeditions around the globe.…

There are so many values and traits that could possibly contribute to the society’s happiness. Eric Weiner, the writer of the book called “The Geography of Bliss”, had travelled to multiple countries around the world, including Netherland, Switzerland, Bhutan, Qatar, etc.. trying to gather information of what values he believed contribute to the society’s happiness. For instance, people may think of money; with more money, you will be happier, you can literally buy happiness to yourself. How…

mentioned is the arduous climb that begins in childhood in order to blossom into a true genius. For a genius is inherently born with a specific talent, as all are, but how one develops and grows with that inner talent us what truly creates a genius. Eric Weiner’s Geography of Genius only begins to delve into to the depths of a true genius, the rest of the research is up to the readers themselves. A genius is brilliant- a genius is wise. A genius is powerful, colorful and wild, but the way they…

phones have also decreased the productivity and societal skills of humans. Consequently, the growing convenience of technology is a phenomenon developing in many works of literature, because of its detrimental effects on society. Both David Cain and Eric Weiner wrote articles respectively titled, “The Danger of Convenience” and “The Cost of Saying Yes to Convenience.” In each of their articles, both authors attempt to educate the reader as…

material. In the article “Why Women Read More Than Men,” Eric Weiner states that there is a large dispute between ladies and gentleman in regards to their amusement, understanding, and passion for a certain subject. I agree with some of the points he made one in particular text was the divide is especially noticeable in the genre of fiction where ladies seem to fancy a satisfying fictional book and gentlemen lean to ignore one. However, Weiner is wrong to assume that just because men read less…

meaningful.” Likewise, in Sherry Turkle article, it says "We thought that online posting would make us bolder than we are in person…”. The article, “Our Cell Phones, Ourselves” written by Eric Weiner also supports both of the authors by saying, “In other ways, too, cell phones are changing how we relate to one another.” Weiner supports both articles because he is also saying that mobile devices are changing us and how we interact with other people. So in other words the article is saying that we…