David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

think, for example, has a higher suicide
rate: countries whose citizens declare
themselves to be very happy, such as
Switzerland, Denmark, Iceland, the
Netherlands, and Canada? or countries
like Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain,
whose citizens describe themselves as
not very happy at all? Answer: the so-
called happy countries. It’s the same
phenomenon as in the Military Police
and the Air Corps. If you are depressed
in a place where most people are pretty
unhappy, you compare yourself to those
around you and you don’t feel all that
bad. But can you imagine how difficult it
must be to be depressed in a country
where everyone else has a big smile on