I just completed Jonathan Haidt’s book Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom. I found myself agreeing with a lot of what Haidt says in the book. Haidt regularly draws insights about happiness from the Bible and other world religions, even though he self-identifies as agnostic. The strength of Haidt’s book comes from the breadth of his research, spanning studies in neurobiology to sociology. Haidt does best when he’s describing cognitive distortions or citing research that correlates mental well-being with a certain behavior or perspective. I consistently find that many of the books about cognitive therapy suggest remedies that overlap with biblical wisdom.