Howard Cutler
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"Howard C. Cutler" is an American writer and psychiatrist who practices in Phoenix, Arizona. He is an expert in the science of human happiness, and co-wrote The Art of Happiness with the 14th Dalai Lama. Cutler has been interviewed by Time (magazine)/Time and O, The Oprah Magazine, as well as hundreds of radio and television programs. He has also spoken to audiences and offered courses/workshops to aid in happiness in the United States and around the World.

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He has this ability to connect with you, to create rapport with people, ... He's very warm and very friendly he has a good sense of humor, laughs very easily. Obviously, when you see somebody like that you can feel this happiness, and you want some of it yourself.

I completely agreed with him, ... These are basic human principles, when you're talking about kindness and compassion and the innate desire for happiness. But it still doesn't hurt talking about it ... You never know when it's actually going to sink in and a person is going to implement it in their own lives.

The type of Buddhist practices that I talk about in 'The Art of Happiness' have to do with reconditioning one's way of thinking and one's outlook, and one's perception and how one relates to people, ... That type of thing, any Westerner can practice at any time.

It didn't turn out that way, ... Over and over again he reminded me, things are not that simple. There's no single key or magic bullet that's going to cure all human ills or difficulties or problems.

Thirty percent of people rate themselves very happy, about 10 percent of people rate themselves as pretty miserable, and then most of us fall in the range somewhere between those points.

What's so revolutionary about this stuff?