How do you solve the problem of human happiness and fulfilment?

It is a subject that has occupied some of history’s greatest thinkers, from Aristotle to Paul McKenna. But how do we sort the good ideas from the bad ones? Are there any hard and fast rules when it comes to happiness, and should we trust anyone who claims to know the secret?

In the last five years journalist Oliver Burkeman has travelled to some of the strangest corners of the ‘happiness industry’ in an attempt to find out, and visits the RSA in bleak mid-January to present his findings. From stress, procrastination and insomnia, to laughter, creativity and wealth, he gives us the lowdown on how to become slightly happier.