What is happiness, and how can we all get some? Buddhist monk, photographer and author, Matthieu Ricard, has devoted his life to these questions, and his answer is influenced by his faith as well as by his scientific turn of mind: We can train our minds in habits of happiness.

Mathieu Ricard has been called the "happiest person in the world" by several popular media. He was a volunteer subject in a study performed at the University of Wisconsin–Madison on happiness, scoring significantly above the average of hundreds of volunteers.