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Happy

Audiobook

'Deeply informative, moving, wise and full of love'
Alain de Botton

'Should be on everyone's reading list - always!'
AC Grayling

Everyone says they want to be happy. But that's much more easily said than done. What does being happy actually mean? And how do you even know when you feel it?
Across the millennia, philosophers have thought long and hard about happiness. They have defined it in many different ways and come up with myriad strategies for living the good life. Drawing on this vast body of work, in Happy Derren Brown explores changing concepts of happiness - from the surprisingly modern wisdom of the Stoics and Epicureans in classical times right up until today, when the self-help industry has attempted to claim happiness as its own. He shows how many of self-help's suggested routes to happiness and success – such as positive thinking, self-belief and setting goals – can be disastrous to follow and, indeed, actually cause anxiety. This brilliant, candid and deeply entertaining book exposes the flaws in these ways of thinking, and in return poses challenging but stimulating questions about how we choose to live and the way we think about death.
Happy aims to reclaim happiness and to enable us to appreciate the good things in life, in all their transient glory. By taking control of the stories we tell ourselves, by remembering that 'everything's fine' even when it might not feel that way, we can allow ourselves to flourish and to live more happily.


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Publisher: Transworld Edition: Unabridged

OverDrive Listen audiobook

  • ISBN: 9781473527089
  • File size: 518750 KB
  • Release date: November 10, 2016
  • Duration: 18:00:43

MP3 audiobook

  • ISBN: 9781473527089
  • File size: 518812 KB
  • Release date: November 10, 2016
  • Duration: 18:06:43
  • Number of parts: 18

Formats

OverDrive Listen audiobook
MP3 audiobook

Languages

English

'Deeply informative, moving, wise and full of love'
Alain de Botton

'Should be on everyone's reading list - always!'
AC Grayling

Everyone says they want to be happy. But that's much more easily said than done. What does being happy actually mean? And how do you even know when you feel it?
Across the millennia, philosophers have thought long and hard about happiness. They have defined it in many different ways and come up with myriad strategies for living the good life. Drawing on this vast body of work, in Happy Derren Brown explores changing concepts of happiness - from the surprisingly modern wisdom of the Stoics and Epicureans in classical times right up until today, when the self-help industry has attempted to claim happiness as its own. He shows how many of self-help's suggested routes to happiness and success – such as positive thinking, self-belief and setting goals – can be disastrous to follow and, indeed, actually cause anxiety. This brilliant, candid and deeply entertaining book exposes the flaws in these ways of thinking, and in return poses challenging but stimulating questions about how we choose to live and the way we think about death.
Happy aims to reclaim happiness and to enable us to appreciate the good things in life, in all their transient glory. By taking control of the stories we tell ourselves, by remembering that 'everything's fine' even when it might not feel that way, we can allow ourselves to flourish and to live more happily.


Expand title description text
  • Details

    Publisher:
    Transworld
    Edition:
    Unabridged

    OverDrive Listen audiobook
    ISBN: 9781473527089
    File size: 518750 KB
    Release date: November 10, 2016
    Duration: 18:00:43

    MP3 audiobook
    ISBN: 9781473527089
    File size: 518812 KB
    Release date: November 10, 2016
    Duration: 18:06:43
    Number of parts: 18

  • Creators
  • Formats
    OverDrive Listen audiobook
    MP3 audiobook
  • Languages
    English