Happier: Learn the Secrets to Daily Joy and Lasting Fulfillment

TalBen-Shahar

• McGraw-Hill (2007年5月1日発売)

感想・レビュー・書評

[nickwongさんの感想 · 2012年7月2日]

Shahar talk about the important of living in the present, and living in the future for the ultimate currency - Happiness.

This is a work book, by following the exercise help me to enhance the self awareness. And therefore become more happier.

The question we should not ask is, "Am I happy?" instead we should ask "Am I happier than before?"

[yukipuoさんの感想 · 2010年12月21日]

◆Capter1
○How can i become happier?
○what rituals make you happier? introduce one or two rituals at a time, and make sure they become habits before you introduce new ones.
○Each night before going to sleep, write down at least five things that made or make you happy.
◆Capter2
○the 4 archetypes: Rat race, Nihilism, Hedonism, and Happiness
◆Capter3
○Happiness is...? the overall experience of pleasure and meaning
○Mapping your life and make a list of the things that are most meaningful and pleasurable to you.
◆Capter4
○Happiness as the ultimate currency
○Create a happiness map --based on the data you collected in the exercise in the Capter3, envision your ideal week
◆Capter5
○Set self-concordant goals
◆Capter6
○Flow= task difficulty × skill level
○Create an education program for yourself
○Write about your failure, and some of the lessons and benefits that came about as a result of the experience

◆Capter 7
○Work as a job, as a career, as a calling
○A job= a chore, with the focus being financial rewards rather than personal fulfillment
○A career= motivated by extrinsic factors, such as money and advancement by power and prestige
○A calling=work is an end itself. he works because he wants to.
○3 questions of the MPS process: ①what give me meaning? wha t provides me with a sense of meaning? ②what gives me pleasure? what do I enjoy doing? ③ what are my strengths? what am I good at?
○Job discriprion →　Calling discription

◆Capter 8
○Cultivationg over Finding= cultivating the one chosen relationship

◆Capter 9
○Self-interest and benevolence

◆Capter 10
○Happiness boosters =activities that provide us with both meaning and pleasure

◆Capter 11
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