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Title: What Happy People Know : How the New Science of Happiness Can Change Your Life for the Better by Dan Baker, Cameron Stauth ISBN: 0-312-32159-7 Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin Pub. Date: 19 January, 2004 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.48 (23 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Can Even Help An Angry, Anxious, Depressed, Cynic Feel Good
Comment: I've read so many self help books over the years, and I can't say any of them have been very helpful. Interesting, definitely - but nothing that got me closer to feeling the way I've dreamed about for so long: happy, confident, & relaxed. I've gotten so skeptical. Thank God there was still enough of a spark of desperate hope buried in me to get me to pick up this wonderful book.
A thousand "Thank You!"'s to Dan Baker who has shown me the light and allowed me to embark upon a whole new journey as I actually begin to enjoy my life and succeed at everything I try the way I never thought I could. Everything in this book now seems so obvious to me, now that I have worked many of Mr. Baker's brilliantly simple ideas into my thinking and my daily life and things are becoming 2nd nature. I wonder why so many of us drag ourselves through our miserable lives for so long, never coming to the conclusions represented in this book.
Some of the key ideas in this book include understanding the relationship between fear and appreciation, taking power over our emotions, finding good in everything, and seeing the pitfalls of money and possesions. The terrible VERB's (victimization, Entitlement, Rescue, and Blame). Dan Baker spits liquor in the face of traditional psychotherapy with all its failings. (Ever been to a shrink who said, "How does that make you feel?," "and how does that make you feel?," "and how does that make you feel?...." - all a bunch of crap, just as you probably suspected.
There's no way for me to explain the content of this book, and there's no need to. This book is an easy and enjoyable read. Get this book! I wish I had found it 20 years ago. I have wasted so much time and energy wandering through life miserable, exhausted, moody, anxious, fearful, angry, irritable, overwhelmed, and sometimes very depressed - with my eyes and my heart closed. When I think about this, for just a second I feel sadness and loss about all that wasted time, but I am so excited about the future that it doesn't even matter. The future is all that matters now. This book holds enormous implications for parents. Worried your kids are picking up your negativity, your worry, your moods - they are - do something about it - read this book.
Some quotes from Dan Baker:
"When you focus on problems...you become bogged down in you own negativity and fear. It's much smarter to focus on possibilities."
"Life hurts. If it doesn't hurt some of the time, it's not life. But you can't allow yourself to get wrapped up in this hurt, constantly reliving it, fearing the futre and grieving the past. That's victimization."
"I often see this [entitlement] happen to rich kids. They grow up in the condition that I call "enriched deprivation." They have so much that everything becomes meaningless. There's nothing left to yearn for, so they lose their power to grow and grasp. They feel entitled to luxury and come to expect it - but expectations, as you may recall, are one of the worst enemies of happiness. These kids become weak, jaded, and ungrateful... They not only lack of self esteem, they lack a sense of self."
Rating: 5
Summary: A wonderful little gem of a book
Comment: I have read many self help books and they all help in some way but this is the first book that I went out and bought five more to give to people I really care about just because I wanted to share this gem of a book with others. This is also the first time I have written a review about anything. I feel this strongly about it.
Dan has discovered through years of practice that many of the things we think would make us happy tend to do the exact opposite.
An interesting twist of the book is that most of the cases Dan talks about come from the lives of people who already have what most people think would make them happy; money, prestige, status, loving families ect, and yet these people were just as miserable as your average person if not more.
I would recommend this book to anyone who is willing to open themselves up to the possibility that happiness is already near and waiting for them.
Rating: 5
Summary: Science + New Age = Success
Comment: Publishers Weekly has presented an editorial that truly depicts exactly how I felt about this book. It is an easy read and there is a sense of the author speaking right off the page. I have had the privilege to meet Dr. Diamond and hear her speak on some of the brain research the author's base some of their findings on the brain and happiness. I appreciate the frank no nonsense approach because it is offered with many caring example of people that discovered their happiness through the thick of the deepest sorrow. I have recommended this one to educators, new age specialists and psychologist colleages of mine. Catch that glimpse of a moment where your choices are made and make the choice of purchasing this insightful book.
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