For $17,700 you can get your master’s degree in happiness: ‘This is too important a field to be at the mercy of self help’

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Tal Ben-Shahar was a gold-star student. He studied computer science at Harvard in the early 90s and played on the squash team, excelling both in the classroom and on the field. He checked off all the boxes, he says, but it didn’t change his state of mind. 

“It really didn't make sense to me why I wasn't happy,” he tells Fortune.