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Love, Learn, Play: A Simple Formula for a Happier, More Meaningful Life
In a world that equates success with happiness, many high-achievers still feel unfulfilled. In Love, Learn, Play, Akhil Gupta offers a transformative mindset that reframes how we think about purpose, peace, and flourishing.
Drawing from his remarkable journey—from global finance to Harvard classrooms—Gupta explores how ancient wisdom and modern science point to three essential forces that lead to true well-being: love, learning, and play. These are not luxuries, he argues, but our deepest human needs.
This powerful, research-backed framework helps readers:
• Break free from false cultural narratives
• Reconnect with their authentic self
• Balance meaning and happiness without burnout
• Bring wholeness to work, parenting, and personal life
• Create a life that feels deeply alive—every day
Whether you're leading a team, raising a family, or reevaluating what really matters, Love, Learn, Play offers a practical and inspiring guide to a life that’s not just successful—but truly flourishing.
If you've ever asked, “Is this all there is?” this book is your answer.
Drawing from his remarkable journey—from global finance to Harvard classrooms—Gupta explores how ancient wisdom and modern science point to three essential forces that lead to true well-being: love, learning, and play. These are not luxuries, he argues, but our deepest human needs.
This powerful, research-backed framework helps readers:
• Break free from false cultural narratives
• Reconnect with their authentic self
• Balance meaning and happiness without burnout
• Bring wholeness to work, parenting, and personal life
• Create a life that feels deeply alive—every day
Whether you're leading a team, raising a family, or reevaluating what really matters, Love, Learn, Play offers a practical and inspiring guide to a life that’s not just successful—but truly flourishing.
If you've ever asked, “Is this all there is?” this book is your answer.
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298 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 9, 2025
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December 30, 2025
Love, Learn, Play! Whoa. Simple. Yet, profound words. I really resonated with this book. It feels like an antidote to the bitterness and division that saturate so many channels today. The ideas are well researched and compassionately explored, and the stories pull you in.
I found myself repeatedly asking: can it really be this simple? But, sometimes the simplest truths are the deepest.
One of the book’s most important insights is that happiness, so often confused with pleasure or optimization, should not be our life’s quest. Happiness emerges as a byproduct of living a meaningful life. The LLP framework makes a compelling case that flourishing looks different for each person, depending on one’s circumstances and endowments, but that the underlying orientation remains the same: love, learning, and play. It's said that it's the journey and not the destination that matters. LLP seems to be the journey, when we can properly see our surroundings.
What surprised me the most is that Love, Learn, Play doesn’t feel like instruction. It feels like a mirror. Its simplicity lowers resistance, and in doing so reveals what parts of ourselves have been neglected. Where love has become conditional, learning has hardened into certainty, and play has been crowded out by seriousness. The confrontation is inward, not imposed. You see yourself more clearly. A light to some of our shadows.
I found myself repeatedly asking: can it really be this simple? But, sometimes the simplest truths are the deepest.
One of the book’s most important insights is that happiness, so often confused with pleasure or optimization, should not be our life’s quest. Happiness emerges as a byproduct of living a meaningful life. The LLP framework makes a compelling case that flourishing looks different for each person, depending on one’s circumstances and endowments, but that the underlying orientation remains the same: love, learning, and play. It's said that it's the journey and not the destination that matters. LLP seems to be the journey, when we can properly see our surroundings.
What surprised me the most is that Love, Learn, Play doesn’t feel like instruction. It feels like a mirror. Its simplicity lowers resistance, and in doing so reveals what parts of ourselves have been neglected. Where love has become conditional, learning has hardened into certainty, and play has been crowded out by seriousness. The confrontation is inward, not imposed. You see yourself more clearly. A light to some of our shadows.
February 14, 2026
a very positive book
I loved the LLP concept and the religious comparisons. It’s nice to see that we are all more alike than different. As an early childhood educator I love the simple yet in depth manner that the importance of lifelong play is explained
I loved the LLP concept and the religious comparisons. It’s nice to see that we are all more alike than different. As an early childhood educator I love the simple yet in depth manner that the importance of lifelong play is explained
December 16, 2025
I won this in a giveaway. I read a few pages has some very interesting facts and thoughts on how to navigate through life.
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