A title that sounds like a confidence, a whisper in the hollow of one's ear. But make no mistake: there's no secret here that to be concealed and which cannot be repeated. Because what Emeric Lebreton has to tell us in this new work concerns the majority, that's to say the human race. Human, all too human as Nietzche said, humans in the grip of all their contradictions, their passionate impulses and mortifying doubts. Humans prey to exaltation and discouragement, full of grandeur, cowardice and fear. And yet, happiness is there, within reach, it is within us, it is called confidence, it is called desire and excelling. Emeric Lebreton likes nothing better than to play the contrarian: thus success is no longer a selfish ambition but becomes a means of being happy, the real antidote to the prevailing gloom, the secret of happiness. As a challenge to people and to himself, he invites us to look at the world through new eyes: no, the end cannot "justify the means" as might be said; only the means we use to succeed in our lives justify our existence on earth. With great sensitivity, and bejewelled with poems, tales and lived experiences, with this book, Emeric Lebreton gives us an original and inspired score.