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Book Description
An award-winning psychologist exposes traditional wisdom to the scrutiny of science to show why ancient insights still help us live more meaningful-and healthy-lives
Your grandmother was smarter than you knew. In fact, grandmothers and other sages, in cultures all over the world, have handed dowContinue
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guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010
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The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom By Jonathan Haidt
Wisdom is now so cheap and abundant that it floods over us from calendar pages, tea bags, bottle caps, and mass e-mail messages asserts social psychologist Jonathan Haidt in The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom. Does acces ... (read full critics)
bookpage published on Sat, 18 Sep 2010
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This book draws upon the idea of non-attachment discovered by several of the world's oldest civilizations -- to question it in light of what we now know about scientific research, and to extract from it the lessons that still apply to our modern lives.
I particularly like the author's metapho ... (continue)
Gabiq said on Aug 26, 2008 about the Paperback edition | 1 feedback
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The book recurrently mentions that 3 things can improve your happiness in early chapters: (1) Prozac; (2) Meditation; and (3) cognitive therapy. While why (1) and (3) will have such therapeutic effect is quite self-explanatory and evident, it does not, however, explain why (2) shall bring about peac ... (continue)
joey said on Sep 9, 2007 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback
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We are the rider and we are the elephant
As the author says, we often understand things through metaphors. And the book gives you a great one to explain our mind: a raider on the back of an elephant.
This image is used in the book to guide the reader in the analysis of many "components" related to happiness: love, virtues, religion, recip ... (continue)Dvd said on May 28, 2010 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback
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- English Books
- Hardcover 288 Pages
- ISBN-10: 0465028012
- ISBN-13: 9780465028016
- Publisher: Basic Books
- Pub date: Dec 24, 2005
- Dimensions: 1548 mm x 1032 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Paperback and Audio CD
- In other languages: other languages
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Don't worry, be happy
The Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Haidt 320pp, William Heinemann, £18.99 The idea of the "divided self" is nothing new. Forget RD Laing: Buddha compared the experience of being human to that of a trainer (rationality) sitting astride an elephant ( ... (read full critics)