About the Author

After burning out of the engineering and business world at 37 years old, and 60-hour work weeks, Byer bought a sailboat and became a semi self-employed, full-time sail bum for twenty years. A struggling sculptor, he decided to follow his dreams of philosophy and writing for self-discovery that he had been reading and writing about after leaving his professional career. At the age of 64 years, for his own satisfaction, he wrote for 14 years about happiness, since he couldn't find any writers who seemed to know what it was. After his career ended he discovered society's goals of success centered around possession and wealth, that society didn't know how to become happy or what happiness really is other than just trying to perpetuate its own social structural survival, which is driven by our necessities of a desire for pleasure and fear of pain, by passions and not by reason.