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Happier
Tal Ben-Shahar
4.01 (2202 Reviews)
Psychology
Self-growth
Mindfulness
Panoramica
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Autore
Domande Frequenti

Overview of Happier

Harvard's most popular course transformed into a book - "Happier" reveals Tal Ben-Shahar's revolutionary approach to happiness as a learnable skill. Challenging conventional wisdom, it offers practical rituals for aligning your life with true meaning beyond material wealth.

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Punti chiave

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Why Happiness Feels So Elusive When We Need It Most

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What if everything you believed about happiness was backward? Most of us operate under a simple assumption: achieve success first, then happiness will follow. Get the promotion, find the relationship, reach the milestone-and joy will be waiting on the other side. Yet research tells a different story. Studies tracking lottery winners and newly tenured professors reveal a troubling pattern: major life victories create only brief happiness spikes before people return to their emotional baseline. Harvard students who were ecstatic about acceptance letters often find themselves stressed and miserable once enrolled. The truth inverts our entire approach. Happiness doesn't follow success-it precedes it. When we elevate our baseline happiness, even slightly, we become more creative, productive, and engaged. We build stronger relationships, develop resilience, and our wellbeing becomes contagious, rippling outward through our communities. This reframes happiness from indulgence to strategic necessity, from luxury to fuel. But here's the paradox: pursuing happiness directly often backfires. Research shows that people who obsess over happiness end up less happy. The solution lies in pursuing happiness indirectly through its core elements, like viewing sunlight through a prism rather than staring directly at the sun. True happiness isn't a single emotion but what can be called "wholebeing"-a holistic state encompassing five interconnected dimensions captured in the acronym SPIRE.

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The Five Pillars of Wholeness and Their Interconnected Power

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Finding Purpose in the Mundane and the Power of Presence

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The Recovery Revolution and Physical Foundations of Wellbeing

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The Joy of Deep Engagement and Embracing Failure

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The Relationship Imperative and the Art of Selfulness

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Embracing the Full Spectrum and Living the Little Things

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