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Happiness: User's Guide: Are You Strong Enough for This Journey?
Happiness: User's Guide is the most complete work on improving human happiness and well-being up to date.
It is a groundbreaking work that will show you real-world solutions to all the common problems that make our lives difficult, stressful, lonely, meaningless, or simply unhappy. Among many other things this book teaches:
1. How to control your emotions, strengthen willpower, and never again fall into temptations that sabotage your health, look, finances, or any other goal.
2. How to learn to enjoy every activity you do, even the ones you currently hate, such as work, exercising, dieting, learning, etc.
3. How to deal with stress and subsequently, how to change your thinking habits so stress completely disappears from your life.
4. How to achieve any goal you set for yourself, and how to do that in a happiness-friendly way.
5. How to design your lifestyle in a way that produces the most happiness on a daily basis.
6. How to quickly and effectively stop negative thinking patterns.
7. How to use reframing and other mental techniques so your life becomes true heaven on earth.
8. What is habituation and why it is one of the biggest enemies of your happiness and life satisfaction?
9. What is mindfulness really about and how to practice it not only through meditation but also in the real-world?
10. What is minimalism and why it is conducive to our well-being?
11. What are the Ten Pillars of Happiness - the main areas of your lifestyle that define how happy you are.
12. What are Six Laws - the most powerful psychological processes that you can use to change your beliefs, thinking habits, self-image, desires, and much more than that.
It is a groundbreaking work that will show you real-world solutions to all the common problems that make our lives difficult, stressful, lonely, meaningless, or simply unhappy. Among many other things this book teaches:
1. How to control your emotions, strengthen willpower, and never again fall into temptations that sabotage your health, look, finances, or any other goal.
2. How to learn to enjoy every activity you do, even the ones you currently hate, such as work, exercising, dieting, learning, etc.
3. How to deal with stress and subsequently, how to change your thinking habits so stress completely disappears from your life.
4. How to achieve any goal you set for yourself, and how to do that in a happiness-friendly way.
5. How to design your lifestyle in a way that produces the most happiness on a daily basis.
6. How to quickly and effectively stop negative thinking patterns.
7. How to use reframing and other mental techniques so your life becomes true heaven on earth.
8. What is habituation and why it is one of the biggest enemies of your happiness and life satisfaction?
9. What is mindfulness really about and how to practice it not only through meditation but also in the real-world?
10. What is minimalism and why it is conducive to our well-being?
11. What are the Ten Pillars of Happiness - the main areas of your lifestyle that define how happy you are.
12. What are Six Laws - the most powerful psychological processes that you can use to change your beliefs, thinking habits, self-image, desires, and much more than that.
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Published January 30, 2021
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July 16, 2021
The concepts discussed in this book are common sense, but we could all do with a reminder every now and then. For instance, sometimes we just need someone to tell us not to procrastinate, be grateful, and take responsibility for our own lives. Overall, this was a decent summary of happiness concepts, but may have benefited from being less preachy in tone.
*Disclaimer: I received a copy from the author in exchange for a review. The views expressed here are my own.
*Disclaimer: I received a copy from the author in exchange for a review. The views expressed here are my own.
February 14, 2022
I cannot write a cohesive review so I’ll use bullet points, in no particular order.
•Too many pages. It dragged on.
•Monotony. Repetition of the same idea over and over again without making any progress.
•This is not a conversation with a friend, people just want to pick out helpful tips from a book, they don’t want to go through almost 800 pages just to do that when there are other books that promise the same thing with fewer pages.
•I think half of this book can be chipped away and the other half published. It honestly didn’t need to drag on this long.
For example, the subchapter everything is learnable. “Of course, that is not true 100% of the time. You cannot learn how to fly or remember the names of everyone in your country (unless it's a tiny country). But everything is learnable rule stands behind a very important Belief System, one of the most important ones.” This concept states that you can learn anything that somebody already learned, and you can achieve anything somebody else already achieved. The fact that somebody succeeded in a particular goal is proof that almost everyone else can do the same. Why? Because almost all of us are equipped with the same resources: brains with the same potential, bodies with the same structure and chemistry. The only difference is how we use those resources. The paragraph was totally unnecessary.
•The author doesn’t do much at convincing potential readers, “why do I need to pick this up? What makes this different? When I can just listen to a Ted talk on happiness.
•Direct translation.
•This book also has its criticism in the book.
•The books says let’s move on then starts a sub chapter about how you are your limitations like, can I just get to the how to be happy part? If this book hadn’t come to me in the manner in which it had, sincerely I would have dropped it from the first page. It just wasn’t promising .
The problem with this book is nothing careful editing cannot fix. If I read this as a first draft, I’d think it was good, but as a published book, this is still in the works.
It is not the responsibility of the author to pander to the reader but I believe it is the responsibility of the author to make reading easy for the reader.
•Too many pages. It dragged on.
•Monotony. Repetition of the same idea over and over again without making any progress.
•This is not a conversation with a friend, people just want to pick out helpful tips from a book, they don’t want to go through almost 800 pages just to do that when there are other books that promise the same thing with fewer pages.
•I think half of this book can be chipped away and the other half published. It honestly didn’t need to drag on this long.
For example, the subchapter everything is learnable. “Of course, that is not true 100% of the time. You cannot learn how to fly or remember the names of everyone in your country (unless it's a tiny country). But everything is learnable rule stands behind a very important Belief System, one of the most important ones.” This concept states that you can learn anything that somebody already learned, and you can achieve anything somebody else already achieved. The fact that somebody succeeded in a particular goal is proof that almost everyone else can do the same. Why? Because almost all of us are equipped with the same resources: brains with the same potential, bodies with the same structure and chemistry. The only difference is how we use those resources. The paragraph was totally unnecessary.
•The author doesn’t do much at convincing potential readers, “why do I need to pick this up? What makes this different? When I can just listen to a Ted talk on happiness.
•Direct translation.
•This book also has its criticism in the book.
•The books says let’s move on then starts a sub chapter about how you are your limitations like, can I just get to the how to be happy part? If this book hadn’t come to me in the manner in which it had, sincerely I would have dropped it from the first page. It just wasn’t promising .
The problem with this book is nothing careful editing cannot fix. If I read this as a first draft, I’d think it was good, but as a published book, this is still in the works.
It is not the responsibility of the author to pander to the reader but I believe it is the responsibility of the author to make reading easy for the reader.
August 7, 2021
I recommend this book because it's the first book which focuses fundamentally on practice, as a
result of comprehensive assessment and combination of the theories and practical guides from psychology, philosophy and religion, etc.
It offers right away solutions for common problems of mind & thought, which may lead to negative judgement to people's individual life and goals.
To make life worths living, as Dr. Seligman said, we need more positive attitudes towards our lives, and positive thoughts are the building blocks of happiness. This book clearly aims to offer some help on establishing a happy life.
I'm a student of psychology, and I read research papers everyday, they each offer some guidance on certain aspects, but most of them isn't yet complete, and may be controversial with each other. This book save me the time to identify, summarize or abstract the useful information from overwhelming amount of papers, books and different systems.
I started reading this book in April, the reason why I've spent so long a time on this book is because this time I really wanted to test if I follow the author's advice will it maximize the benefit as it's promised by the author, that everyone should read it more than once and refer to it as necessary, which I don't usually do because lack of patience, but it turns out to be worthwhile, because by practicing many of the techniques introduced by this book, I saw the changs, not as serious as life change, but I did benefit a lot from it.
result of comprehensive assessment and combination of the theories and practical guides from psychology, philosophy and religion, etc.
It offers right away solutions for common problems of mind & thought, which may lead to negative judgement to people's individual life and goals.
To make life worths living, as Dr. Seligman said, we need more positive attitudes towards our lives, and positive thoughts are the building blocks of happiness. This book clearly aims to offer some help on establishing a happy life.
I'm a student of psychology, and I read research papers everyday, they each offer some guidance on certain aspects, but most of them isn't yet complete, and may be controversial with each other. This book save me the time to identify, summarize or abstract the useful information from overwhelming amount of papers, books and different systems.
I started reading this book in April, the reason why I've spent so long a time on this book is because this time I really wanted to test if I follow the author's advice will it maximize the benefit as it's promised by the author, that everyone should read it more than once and refer to it as necessary, which I don't usually do because lack of patience, but it turns out to be worthwhile, because by practicing many of the techniques introduced by this book, I saw the changs, not as serious as life change, but I did benefit a lot from it.
January 13, 2022
Happiness: User's Guide is great for anyone struggling to find happiness in their life, those that wish to enrich their happiness, or even those that want to help others find their own path to being happy. The book is packed with helpful knowledge; truly no matter goes untouched. Ideas may be brought to light that one might never have thought of otherwise.
It's easy to blame outside forces on being unhappy, but the answer really lies within ones self. This book can help anyone looking for happiness to take the time to think about where the feeling really comes from and how we can control it in every aspect of our lives.
We are the lock and this book is the key.
It's easy to blame outside forces on being unhappy, but the answer really lies within ones self. This book can help anyone looking for happiness to take the time to think about where the feeling really comes from and how we can control it in every aspect of our lives.
We are the lock and this book is the key.
January 18, 2022
This is an integrative guide to better living and a fulfilling life. Some concepts we may be taking for granted, but they are a constant in our everyday lives and are catalysts to our enrichment or our detriment.
June 12, 2021
Good book everyone should read it,it tells how we can be happy in our life,i loved this book
February 27, 2022
I read the introduction to this book. I found it intriguing and realistic in its approach to happiness. It gave me a more rooted and grounded idea of how happiness can be pursued. Thank you, Jan.
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