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Title: Happiness Is a Serious Problem : A Human Nature Repair Manual by Dennis Prager ISBN: 0-06-098735-9 Publisher: Regan Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.12 (25 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: If you wonder why you're unhappy, read this book...
Comment: Dennis Prager, a devout Jew, helped bring me to Christ through years of listening to his radio commentaries and reading his books and essays. His clear-thinking and insight to man's eternal dilemma can help anyone searching for meaning in his life, and for a personal relationship with God.
But Mr. Prager's book on happiness does us all a service while we spend our time here on earth, muddling through the complexities of every day life.
One of the keys to happiness, Mr. Prager rightly suggests, is that expectations inevitably result in unhappiness. This is a wonderful insight to why so many today are frustrated, angry and unhappy in a society that touts the entitlement mindset, the thinking that we are automatically entitled to things, including happiness.
If you can set aside your expectations suddenly everything good that enters your life becomes a blessing. What do you appreciate more, the gift you've demanded or the one you didn't expect?
Hang on to your expectations and you can expect to be dissatisfied when they aren't met, and unappreciative when they do come true - after all, you expected to get it and felt that you deserved it, so why should you appreciate it?
Integral to happiness is appreciation. Unappreciative people are simply unhappy people. They are people who expect life to cater to them, so consequently are bitter when it doesn't and unappreciative when it does.
This book should be required reading in all schools, particularly on college campuses where so many expect life to cater to them. But it applies equally well to all ages.
Buy this book for anyone you'd like to help find happiness.
Rating: 3
Summary: Prager offers common sense guide to contentment
Comment: Probably the most amusing anecdote in Dennis Prager's "Happiness Is a Serious Problem" concerns a Jewish rabbi who is unhappy because he can't find a suitable wife. When Prager asked the rabbi what qualities he was looking for in a woman, the rabbi's reply was: "A Playboy bunny who studies the Torah."
You can probably guess what Prager's advice was, and what his worldview is regarding the relationship between happiness and expectations. Really, what this book is largely about is contentment -- finding ways to be satisfied with the status quo. Certainly he advocates doing what is intelligent and reasonable to change the circumstances if you so desire, but that most of our problems stem from dissatisfaction with situations that are perfectly acceptable, even though they fall short of our preferences.
In any book that dispenses common-sense advice, the greatest risk is that of oversimplification. Inevitably, Prager falls into that trap at various points. Fortunately, he never makes the mistake of implying that the kinds of shifts in perspective he advocates are easy to make.
Further, Prager suggests that a spiritual life -- with its implicit realization that there are some things we simply do not understand, but must nevertheless come to terms with -- is a desirable thing. This, too, mitigates the extent to which he might be perceived as understating the world's complexities.
I purchased the audio cassette version of the book, primarily because I'm most familiar with Prager as a radio personality, and it seemed appropriate to have these observations conveyed to me in a similar way.
Rating: 5
Summary: Wow - What a powerful, life changing book
Comment: I read some of those reviews and they are garbage its obvious they didnt read the book, I am a 23 y/o single male, and It is uncool to think and believe conservitave / central views. I am finding each time I talk to some one who is liberal I am able to get them to say you know what I never thought of it that way. Many of these issues were brought up in this book. This book should be a text book in school.
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Title: Think a Second Time by Dennis Prager ISBN: 006098709X Publisher: Regan Books Pub. Date: 09 October, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: In, But Not Of : A Guide to Christian Ambition by Hugh Hewitt ISBN: 0785263950 Publisher: Nelson Books Pub. Date: 10 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.99 |
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Title: Why the Jews? The Reason for Antisemitism by Dennis Prager, Joseph Telushkin ISBN: 0743246209 Publisher: Touchstone Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: If It's Not Close, They Can't Cheat: Crushing the Democrats in Every Election and Why Your Life Depends on It by Hugh Hewitt ISBN: 0785263195 Publisher: Nelson Books Pub. Date: 12 July, 2004 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: The Ten Commandments of Character: Essential Advice for Living an Honorable, Ethical, Honest Life by JOSEPH TELUSHKIN ISBN: 1400045096 Publisher: Harmony/Bell Tower Pub. Date: 26 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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