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Happiness

A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill

Matthieu Ricard author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Atlantic Books

Published:1st Jan '15

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This step-by-step guide to achieving happiness is the most significant book of its kind since Daniel Goleman's runaway bestseller, Emotional Intelligence. 'A remarkable book. It is hard to imagine a more convincing guide to that elusive thing: happiness' Pankaj Mishra.

This step-by-step guide to achieving happiness is the most significant book of its kind since Daniel Goleman's runaway bestseller, Emotional Intelligence.

'A remarkable book. It is hard to imagine a more convincing guide to that elusive thing: happiness' Pankaj Mishra.

Although we are materially better off than ever before, surveys show that we are depressed and listless. In his revolutionary book, Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard shows that happiness is not just an emotion, but a skill that can be developed. Free of jargon, Happiness contains simple exercises that will train the mind to recognize and pursue happiness by concentrating on the fundamental things in life, and in doing so change the way we view the wo

A remarkable book... It exudes inspiration and intelligence * Independent on Sunday *
Matthieu Ricard exhorts us to realize the toxic, self-harming nature of anger and envy, get off the roller coaster of alternating happiness and unhappiness, and instead experience the pleasure of being calmly alive and aware. * Sunday Times *
Matthieu Ricard combines the talents of a philosopher and scientist -- George Soros
If you want to be happier and better, this is the book you should read -- Richard Layard, author of Happiness: Lessons from New Science

ISBN: 9781782394815

Dimensions: 22mm x 198mm x 130mm

Weight: 260g

304 pages

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