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From the bestselling coauthor of Chicken Soup for the Woman’s Soul and a leading contributor to The Secret, comes a fresh, new, practical program for finding and maintaining the happiness we all seek.
Happy for No Reason: 7 Steps to Being Happy from the Inside Out
Pinned on December 11, 2012 at 12:02 pm by Edgar Fleetwood
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Many reasons to read this book When I first saw the title, “Happy for No Reason,” I’ll have to admit that my initial reaction was that this would be just one more new age, touch-feely, full-of-fluff feel-good book. So I was very pleasantly surprised to see how thoroughly-researched, well-written, and down-to-earth practical this book is. “Happy for No Reason” is a groundbreaking philosophy that belongs in the same category as the work of David Burns (cognitive mood therapy), Martin Seligman (learned optimism), Daniel Goleman (emotional intelligence) and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (flow). It is a brilliant blend of scientific research summarized in language that anyone can understand plus stories from people Marci calls the Happy 100, people who are role models of happiness for the sake of happiness, not because of love or money or other exogenous factors.I was so impressed with this book that I gave copies to each of my children as Christmas gifts this year. I’m hoping they will read it with a pen or highlighter in hand, which is what I found myself doing – and would recommend to you as well. It’s easy to be unhappy, which might be why so many people are. Watch TV for an hour and you’ll have a hundred reasons to not be happy; it’s nice to know that you can choose to be happy for no reason at all.
Good, Yes…But Not the Best in Getting and Staying Happier I have read more of the happiness literature than most people because of a work assignment. Granted, by the time I got to this one, much of the information was not new anymore. But when evaluating a book or manuscript, it’s helpful to look at it as if it were the first of its type you have picked up.Happy for No Reason is good, but there are better “happy” books out there. Good promotion is taking this one far. Better by a long shot are STUMBLING ON HAPPINESS (Daniel Gilbert), HAPPY AT LAST: THE THINKING PERSON’S GUIDE TO FINDING JOY (Richard O’Connor), and AUTHENTIC HAPPINESS (Martin Seligman).