Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 170
Format: Bargain Price
Label: Basic Books
Manufacturer: Basic Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: December 24, 2005
Publisher: Basic Books
Sales Rank: 427833
Studio: Basic Books
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Jonathan Haidt skillfully combines two genres-philosophical wisdom and scientific research-delighting the reader with surprising insights. He explains, for example, why we have such difficulty controlling ourselves and sticking to our plans; why no achievement brings lasting happiness, yet a few changes in your life can have profound effects, and why even confirmed atheists experience spiritual elevation. In a stunning final chapter, Haidt addresses the grand question 'How can I live a meaningful life?,' offering an original answer that draws on the rich inspiration of both philosophy and science.
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Rating:  - This might become a classic---so much wisdom in so little space
The blurb on the front cover of this book is "For the reader who seeks to understand happiness, my advice is: begin with Haidt." I believe this assertion is exactly right. I have never read a single volume that summarized and wove into a coherent whole the variety of insights concerning human happiness that have been discovered by philosophers and religious gurus of the past and modern social psychologists. Moreover, this book is beautifully written, the exposition of various theories always taking ... Read More
Rating: - AMAZING BOOK
It's an amazing book for whoever is looking to understand how our mind works, how it's nature is structured, how the simple stuff the people already have identified about our nature has been proven by science and so can easily be described (as opposed to just believing somebody older because he says so)
Rating: - Outstanding field of psychology
This book provides a great overvieuw of the latest developments in positive psychology.
This is the first really new thing I learned in the field of psychology since i obtained my master (2004)
It is written very well and is a must for every person who seeks to understand the psychology of happiness (no real a-priori knowledge needed)
minor remarks: I'm not sure whether his interpretation of the Harlow experiments are accurate. And he doesn't accredit Nuttin for the ... Read More
Rating:  - A Happy Accident, but an Accident Nevertheless
Haidt attempts a synthesis of the proto-psychological observations of the sages from the western, middle eastern, Chinese and Indian cultural traditions with modern psychological research into the cognitive and emotional functioning of healthy minds. There is much that is interesting in the book, from both the psychological and historical perspective, but the author's concern for accessibility (for which he thanks, or perhaps blames, an employee of his publisher) has come at the expense of achieving ... Read More
Rating: - You can really discuss this book with your coffee partner
Haidt says there are three ways to change your state of happiness: drugs, meditation and psychotherapy.This book is a effectively a good dose of psychotherapy and has some really excellent stand alone chapters particularly on love and romance and highlights in the study of what makes people happy, particularly based on scientific research from the 20th century.This book is an exploration of happiness that is anchored in ancient wisdoms we may be familiar with - Roman stoics, a bit of Greek philosophy, ... Read More
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