From the New York Times–bestselling psychologist who taught us how to be happier, an intimate, keepsake collection of lessons he learned from a most unlikely source: his barber

In his record-breaking Harvard courses on positive psychology, his international best-selling books on the subject, and through the lectures and videos that are broadcast around the world, Tal Ben-Shahar has shared with people some of the most essential tools to finding our own paths to happiness in life, work, love, and everything in between. But even the happiness expert needs a source of inspiration from time to time, and Tal found his not in a guru or fellow psychologist, but in his neighborhood Israeli barber.

Sitting in Avi’s chair to get his hair trimmed was at first a necessity that gradually grew into a friendship deeper than most, and is familiar to anyone who’s shared more with his or her hairdresser than with friends and family; between snips, the two men, strikingly different in many ways, talked about everything from family and starting a business to the meaning of life and the power of music. Two years’ worth of barber shop talk have been distilled into these gems of wisdom and inspiration, perfect to give, receive, and share, even between your haircuts.