What if the future isn't asking us to work harder?

The question behind the book

If machines can do more of the doing… what happens to the human being?

Artificial intelligence is changing the world of work, productivity, and everyday life. But Choose Joy Method isn't simply a book about technology.

John Gallagher asks what happens to our sense of worth when our identity is no longer built around what we produce.

His answer is to return to something deeper: love, presence, connection, wonder, and the simple experience of being alive.

John Gallagher describes more than forty years of exploring spirituality. His philosophy was shaped not only by spiritual experiences, but also by profound loss.

He writes about losing his parents and his twin brother, Kenny, in a car accident. Years later, while working as a truck driver in Oklahoma's oil fields, he was sent to an oil well named Kenny — an experience that became deeply meaningful to him.

From those experiences grew a larger understanding: life can contain sadness without being something that must be “fixed.” His message centers on love, letting go, and choosing joy.

His approach is intentionally unconventional, humorous, and simple. He doesn't ask readers to chase mystical experiences. Instead, he brings spirituality into ordinary life — breathing, laughing, noticing, forgiving yourself, and continuing the ride.

Anima Nova · New Soul

What happens when we finally have room to breathe?

Choose Joy Method connects technological change with a broader spiritual possibility. Gallagher describes Anima Nova — “New Soul” — as a possible new age in which people can release some of the old burdens tied to endless doing, status, and productivity.

The opportunity isn't to control everything or have every answer. It is to become comfortable with not knowing, release fear, and move forward with humility and love.