Improving Your Happiness and Success

About the Book

While it is probably likely there is no statistical basis of support for this, I suspect that some 90 percent of the population of the developed world either does not like mathematics or does not understand mathematics. At least that is my experience. The main purpose of this book is to demonstrate to those 90 percent that, despite what they think, some very simple approaches utilizing numbers and simple mathematics can significantly improve one's life at home and at work and who is politically elected, in terms of both happiness and success. And happiness and success can be very different. In addition, if you are in business or if you work in a business environment, what you will learn in this book can be extremely helpful to you and your organization in making critical business decisions.

About the Author

Hovey Tyndall was born in Boston, Massachusetts and grew up in Brookline, a contiguous suburb. He graduated from Brown University with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and has taken many post graduate courses. He served eight years as an officer in the U.S. Navy including time aboard an aircraft carrier and as a battalion commander of recruits at Great Lakes, Illinois. He worked for General Electric Company for 27 years in finance and strategic planning with his last job, based in London, England, having responsibility for GE’s planning and development for business in the Middle East and Africa. He spent 10 years marketing and helping to install a cash flow training program at more than 20 Fortune 500 companies. He is now Chairman and President of Building Humanity Worldwide, a charitable organization with a mission of helping challenged communities around the world. At GE he also taught a program called Mathematics for Management. Hovey has traveled to over sixty countries and has lived in over twenty places. Hovey loves his family, his many friendships, interesting and deep conversations, traveling, healthy and tasty food, good wine and cheese, and games such as chess, bridge and other card games, and some computer games. The first name of Hovey was strongly suggested and accepted by the wife of Elihu Thomson, a cofounder of General Electric. She was a sister of my grandmother and her maiden name was Hovey.