Quote:Alphonsus Obayuwana MD PhD CPC, Mirron Willis (Narrator), "The Happiness Formula: A Scientific, Groundbreaking Approach to Happiness and Personal Fulfillment"

In 1979, Dr. Alphonsus Obayuwana was awarded a national research grant and Smith-Kline Medical Perspective Fellowship to develop an instrument for measuring human hope, with the purpose of detecting hopelessness early enough in troubled human individuals so assistance could be offered in time to prevent suicide. The Hope Index Scale (HIS) that resulted from this grant became very popular with Fortune 500 companies and other institutions both in the US and in other countries. This led to the foundation of decades of research that ultimately resulted in this cutting-edge book,