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Jamison challenges the reader to step back and be more contemplative, and to be still and look inwards. [3] The teachings which Jamison presents are "based on those of the fourth-century desert fathers , founded by St Anthony and honed into shape by St Benedict , father of western monasticism ".
Kirkus Reviews said, "what sustains the reader is the steady humor displayed in Newman’s benignly wacko voice, crisp and always ready to deflate". [9] Kirkus called her second memoir, Catastrophic Happiness: Finding Joy in Childhood's Messy Years (Little, Brown & Co., 2016), "an overly sentimental book". [10]
Happiness By Design. On 28 August 2014, Dolan published his book Happiness by Design, with foreword by Nobel Prize-winner Daniel Kahneman. [17] The theme of the book is using the tools of behavioural science to help promote individual happiness by reallocating attention. Dolan promoted this book in a talk at the Hay Festival on 30 May 2015. [18]
The Guardian: “Gilbert's book is a witty, racy and readable study of expectation, anticipation, memory and perception: all bits of scaffolding within the structure of happiness.” [7] The Publishers Weekly: “a scientific explanation of the limitations of the human imagination and how it steers us wrong in our search for happiness, …
He is the author of Popular: Finding Happiness and Success in a World That Cares Too Much About the Wrong Kinds of Relationships, a book describing the role of popularity in society. [10] [11] Prinstein serves on the 2020 board of directors as the Chief Science Officer [12] for the American Psychological Association (APA). [13]
The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom is a 2006 book written by American social psychologist Jonathan Haidt.In it, Haidt poses several "Great Ideas" on happiness espoused by thinkers of the past—such as Plato, Buddha and Jesus—and examines them in the light of contemporary psychological research, extracting from them any lessons that still apply to our modern lives.
Happiness Becomes You: A Guide to Changing Your Life for Good is a memoir published by singer Tina Turner in 2020. [1] Described by the author as "a very personal book that focuses on the core themes of my life: hope, happiness, and faith," [2] it explores details of Turner's life including how she overcame obstacles to achieve happiness and success, and offers Turner's advice on how readers ...
He was twice nominated for the National Book Award for Fiction – for his first novel, The Pursuit of Happiness (1968), which was adapted into a 1971 film of the same name, and his second novel, The Confessions of a Child of the Century by Samuel Heather (1972). His final two novels were both centered on the same protagonist.