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Happiness for Dummies
Happiness for Dummies
Happiness for Dummies
Audiobook (abridged)3 hours

Happiness for Dummies

Written by W. Doyle Gentry

Narrated by Brett Barry

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Now, you can find the happiness you want and live "the good life" you deserve by applying the helpful information in Happiness For Dummies, the ultimate guide to achieving bliss! You'll discover proven techniques for living a meaningful, healthy, and productive life no matter what your life circumstances happen to be. Positive concepts and techniques will help you change key behaviors, foster good habits, and be in sync with your surroundings.

This helpful guide will give you the chance to assess your happiness and understand what it means to be happy at each stage of self-actualization. You'll learn why having positive emotions can improve your health and well-being. And, you will find out what happiness isn't and how to avoid confusing happiness with culturally valued outcomes like wealth, power, and success. Pursue what you want, seize the day, find benefits in life's challenges, and live a coherent lifestyle. Find out how to:

  • Assess your current capacity for happiness
  • Live the life that you want
  • Overcome common obstacles to happiness
  • Identify your strengths and virtues
  • Improve your emotional and spiritual life
  • Create meaningful social ties and learn to be alone
  • Find the silver lining

Complete with lists of ten ways to raise a happy child, ten common roadblocks to happiness, and ten personal habits to foster happiness, Happiness For Dummies is your one-stop, easy-to-follow guide to being happy and living your best life.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherHarperAudio
Release dateDec 16, 2008
ISBN9780061764943

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    I’ve only gotten up to chapter 7. I will read further, but at this point I know I see things from a different vantage point than the author. I’m currently recovering from major depressive disorder and it is going very well. I disagree with this author’s take on ‘optimism’ & extroversion. He implies that introverts are less likely to be optimistic, that socially outgoing people are the optimistic ones and quietude denotes pessimism. To me, this communicates a rather limited understanding of the mind of introverts and the definition of optimism. There is much deep joy experienced by people who are less boisterous. There are many beautiful writers, musicians, yogis, artists, poets and even athletes who enjoy a fulfilling life with their more quiet demeanour. The ‘appearance’ of being socially outgoing is not necessarily an indication of one’s degree of optimism. I am saying this as one who ‘appears’ to others as outgoing and gregarious and am recovering from clinical depression. I am actually learning from the introverts, the quiet ones a deeper seated, more authentic sense of joy than what is superficially exhibited by this author’s extroverted ‘optimists’. I wish you smiles & happiness :) xx

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