El camino a la felicidad

by L. Ron Hubbard

True joy and happiness are valuable.



If one does not survive, no joy and no happiness
are obtainable.

Trying to survive in a chaotic, dishonest and
generally immoral society is difficult.



Any individual or group seeks to obtain from life what pleasure
and freedom from pain that they can.



Your own survival can be threatened by the bad actions of
others around you.



Your own happiness can be turned to tragedy and sorrow by
the dishonesty and misconduct of others.



I am sure you can think of instances of this actually happening.
Such wrongs reduce one’s survival and impair one’s happiness.



You are important to other people. You are listened to. You
can influence others.



The happiness or unhappiness of others you could name is
important to you.



Without too much trouble, using this book, you can help them
survive and lead happier lives.



While no one can guarantee that anyone else can be happy,
their chances of survival and happiness can be improved. And
with theirs, yours will be.



It is in your power to point the way to a less dangerous and
happier life.

Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy, Religion, Self Help, Spirituality

74 pages, Unknown Binding

Published January 1, 2006

About the author

L. Ron Hubbard is universally acclaimed as the single most influential author and humanitarian of this modern age. His definitive works on the mind and spirit—comprising over 350 million copies in circulation and more than 40 international bestsellers—have resulted in a legacy benefiting millions and a movement spanning all cultures.

Reviews

[Carrie Poppy · Rating 1 out of 5]

Bad.

[Paul Grimsley · Rating 5 out of 5]

this book is written in a simple style but the points it makes are ones everyone would agree with and profoundly affected me.

[Annie♡ · Rating 3 out of 5]

¡Qué regalo tan hermoso recibí hoy!
Este libro, sí, fue un regalo. Me gustó mucho :D
Me lo leí en unas 2 horas o algo así y la verdad es que está muy lindo.
Recomendado para las personas a las que les gusten los libros de auto-ayuda.

[Valerie · Rating 1 out of 5]

This was Hubbard's attempt at making a palatable entry into his corrupt organization. Hubbard lied about his discoveries. He falsified his history. His work is purely fiction. For anyone intending to read this this as a way to solve their life's problems please do so with the most extreme caution. The parts that work are actually stolen ideas from others belief systems. You can work through these concepts without any need to turn to Hubbard. There is nothing at the higher levels of Scientology except financial ruin, disconnection, and years working toward fabricated outcomes.

[Kelly · Rating 5 out of 5]

Made me think about how you are not only responsible for yourself, but also ensuring those around you act responsibly since they affect you as well.

[Simo · Rating 3 out of 5]

one of best short books i've ever read

Edit 04/09/2020: I was stupid and Naive to think that this is one of the best books I've ever read.

[Rhonda · Rating 1 out of 5]

Vapid. Pretty sure all those five-star reviews are fake.

[Ross Blocher · Rating 3 out of 5]

The two stars rating reads "it was ok"... I think that is a great summary for this book. Taken in context with L. Ron Hubbard's "non-fiction" works, this should rank highly - so I'll give it another star on that account. At least it's benign. Hubbard, later in his life (1981), shares 21 precepts for how to live a better life. They're pretty good precepts in general, if obvious, though his explanations feel someone haphazard. I suspect he extemporized this off the top of his head, as I suppose he composed most of his works. I feel any one of us could write a comparable book off the top of our heads. For a more detailed description of the book (and The Way to Happiness Foundation itself), listen to the May 1, 2016 episode of Oh No, Ross and Carrie! the podcast.

[Julia · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is just amazing. It's basically a book of moral codes that have made my life a million times better! No, it's not religious, which is what some people might avoid it for. In fact, one of the moral codes is "Respect the religious beliefs of others"

This book has been a huge success, FAST. I love to see it being distributed to people all over the world. It truly is one of a kind.

BUY IT NOW! (:

[Brett · Rating 2 out of 5]

I work near a church of Scientology and some weirdo left this in my bar to be found last Valentine's day so I figured I'd give it a spin. It's pretty funny at first, with the third tenet of the way to happiness being to regularly brush your teeth, but about midway through Hubbard's nerdy prose and obsession with footnotes starts to get a little tedious. The soft greyscale illustrations are a hoot and there's an amusing degree to which Hubbard uses driving a car as metaphor for life and distilling life experience down to "survival" and "data." Worth a skim for a chuckle or two, but too pedantic and dry to be really funny.

[Sean Rosenthal · Rating 2 out of 5]

Interesting Quote:

"One can feel at times like a spinning leaf blown along a dirty street, one can feel like a grain of sand stuck in one place. But nobody has said that life was a calm and orderly thing; it isn't. One isn't a tattered leaf nor a grain of sand: one can, to a greater of lesser degree, draw his road map and follow it."

-L. Ron Hubbard, the Way to Happiness

[Nate Horn · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book I am very disappointed in. This was a how to book on basic stuff that everyone already knows. Be good to people etc. This is common sense stuff not something that I normally read. Disappointing indeed.

[Maddie · Rating 2 out of 5]

Weird. Written as if the reader was very, very uneducated. Most of the advice is pretty standard.

[Joop Kriebel · Rating 2 out of 5]

2.5 ⭐

On the one hand, this is a book with fine, if obvious, tips for living a better life. However, some things are rather oddly worded. On the other hand, it feels very much like propaganda. The author deliberately asks that you buy a bundle of these booklets so that you can distribute them. Under the guise of "helping your fellow man" when it is actually "indirectly promoting the Church of Scientology". In short, I think that some of the rules may be valuable to some people, but I think the true intention behind this booklet is to recruit people into the Church of Scientology.

[Pat · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is an easy read about the basic principles for behavior in order to live a stress-free and healthy life.

[Marv · Rating 4 out of 5]

Just found this little booklet in my mail box. My left eyebrow raised after I saw who the author of it was - knowing about his ties to Scientology. But the title appeared appealing and with some scepticism I started reading it.

There’s nothing wrong with this book. Every point made is easy to understand and makes sense. It’s easy and quickly to read.

I enjoyed it.

[Haider Al-Mosawi · Rating 2 out of 5]

The Way To Happiness goes through a number of virtues, values and principles needed for a happy life, such as caring for one's hygiene to not murdering.

I found the book to be extremely simplistic, without any real guidance on how to cultivate a virtue, apart from highlighting the "survival" benefits it brings to the individual, and to society at large.

At one point, the author makes the claim that the reason why criminals commit crimes is because they "can't learn." I believe human beings are slightly more complicated than that. There are a number of reasons for why crimes are committed, and to reduce the problem to an intellectual inability seems far-fetched.

As for the style of the book, I would've preferred the use of the pronoun "you" instead of "one", and thought the expression "true facts" (used throughout the book) was very awkward.

It's useful to consider the different virtues we can cultivate. However, I don't think this book covered them with sufficient depth or breadth.

[Einzige · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is a book which has gained a new relevance. This is because it comes off as a caricature of Jordan Peterson's more recent work for it contains a number inoffensive commonsense rules to live by (and yes it even includes cleaning your room - precept 12.2) but it takes further with things like brushing your teeth and not breaking the law. More importantly though you get the same notion that the commonsense rules are being used to set the foundation for if not conflate acceptance with far more complicated matters which are not nearly as simple or obvious.

I did find it a bit fun that it had footnotes in order to define things like murder or compromise but nothing for claims like

"The powerful religion of Buddhism in India vanished from there in the seventh century. According to its own historians the cause was sexual promiscuity in its monasteries."
-Precept 3.1

[Cory Howell · Rating 1 out of 5]

This little booklet purports to be a "Common Sense Guide to Better Living." Kind of like a Ten Commandments, plus a few more, it's not exactly the revolutionary publication its devotees claim. And a lot of it doesn't jive very well with what Hubbard actually seems to have practiced in his own life and business dealings. Of course, I guess your view of his honesty depends on how much you buy into the Church of Scientology propaganda. You can read it for free here.

[Tim Price · Rating 5 out of 5]

I first tried to study this book, and I rushed through it and found it quite difficult to understand.
I put it down for a while and then about 7 months later, I decided to pick it up again and give it another shot. I decided to take my time with it and really make sure that I understood each sentence, each paragraph, each chapter, etc.

All I can say is wow! What I got out of it has honestly changed my life!
I could carry on for ages, but all I can recommend is that you go buy this book, READ IT, apply it to your life and what how it changes you for the better!

[Jason Toth · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is one of my favourite books of all time. It is a common sense moral code, that anyone of any belief system (or lack thereof) can agree upon. It serves as an excellent way for all people of good will to establish understanding and agreement with each other. It isn’t just harping on about morality, but a practical guide on how to live morally and why each point matters. It also includes all kinds of very simple points that can be used to help a person improve their life and live more ethically.

[Lucinda Deville · Rating 5 out of 5]

The best way I find to describe this book is that it is like a modern-day version of the Christians’ The Ten Commandments, as the tenets by which the book proposes man should live are basic and very applicable to our current world – no matter what age, education, race or creed. It is so simple and sensible that I have my children – aged 9 to 25 – refer to it regularly, and I can see by the changes in their attitudes and behaviour that they have realised that if they apply these tenets to their everyday living, they are in fact HAPPIER…!

[Sine Nomine · Rating 1 out of 5]

It is one of the stupidest books ever written! I don't understand why people say it is a religious book when it is anything but holy. The book only states morals and ways to live by that everyone already knows ( I hope ) and borrowed from other religions and philosophies. If we analyze the book as a spiritual self-help book, then it is still stupid, and there are far better books than it in this genre.

[Ted Forgach · Rating 5 out of 5]

I picked this up and thought it would be some religious dogma, or pious preachiness. Boy was I wrong! There is nothing in this book that can be disputed. It makes so much sense. And at first I thought, yeah everyone knows this stuff. And you do. BUT, you don't. I certainly didn't follow the precepts in the book before I read it. And I can see how if everyone did, this world would be a much better place.

[Bren fall in love with the sea. · Rating 3 out of 5]

I happened to spot this at a friend's house so I read it. It is quite short. I actually appreciated some of the advice in it. Not anywhere near what I expected and I expected it to be pretty bad.

I can see this actually working as sort of an organizer for daily activity or to help make one more motivated and/or positive. It is not a book I knew existed as I just happened to stumble upon it. It wasn't bad at all.

[Douglas DLS · Rating 2 out of 5]

Verdaderamente aburrido, como la mayoria de los libros de auto ayuda...
Aun no logro entender como la gente puede leer estos libros, por mi parte lo hice porque no tenia mas nada que leer mientras pagaba las cuentas del banco.

Desde cepillarte los dientes hasta cumplir con los mandamientos de la biblia te llevan al camino de la felicidad bla bla bla

[Shane Cormier · Rating 1 out of 5]

I think my daughter could have written this book. As the guy below said. Very minimal, broad and simplistic. Easier said than done. One of those things. Good starting point though and good bathroom reading because there are very little words lol

[K7 · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book teaches the Human how to live with ethics, shows him a better way for living in love and peace with himself, relatives, people around him and the whole nature...
So many advices presented it in short forms.

[Dawn Wells · Rating 2 out of 5]

Now, I see why this is the fastest growing "religion" it works on our hope of happily ever after. It makes you believe you are good but society is bad. The funny thing is people make up society. Hum?

[Strider · Rating 2 out of 5]

I havent read anything like this before. I agreed with the statements but there were almost nothing new to me and I believe things are not that easy as it was stated in the book and it is nearly not enough. Although it was not bad and actually I really liked the last three advices.