“The Happiness Equation” by Neil Pasricha edited in Canva
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Hello everyone! Welcome back and Happy New Year! January 1st is one of my favorite times of year because it feels like a fresh start, and it is a fresh start. I feel a renewed sense of motivation and focus with a new year, a clean slate. This year I am committed to reading (and posting about) 1 book a month. Sounds familiar right… but I really mean it this time! Well hey, I’m on track so far! This month, the first one of the year, I dedicated to reading one of the first “self-help/inspirational” books I’ve ever read, and I don’t know that I’m a fan…
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Neil Pasricha is the New York Times bestselling author of seven books, including: The Book of Awesome, The Happiness Equation, Two-Minute Mornings, and You Are Awesome to name a few. He is Canadian and lives in Toronto with his family. Neil is also a blogger!
ABOUT THE BOOK
The Happiness Equation is a self-help book that illustrates how to want nothing and do anything in order to have everything. The book boasts the 9 Secrets to Happiness. Each secret explores a simple concept and attempts to shift your perspective on it to enlighten you.
Among these 9 Secrets, you will be told that multitasking doesn’t exist, cutting down available options leads to better decision making, and advice always conflicts. Some of these ideas are interesting to me, or I could at least see how they might be valuable, while others I straight up disagree with.
My favorite concepts are as follows: secret number 2: Do It for You – internal motivation allows for more satisfaction than external desires, secret number 3: Remember the Lottery – realizing that you already have it really good comparatively to how your situation could be, and secret number 7: Just Do It – which advises to just start something you want to do even if you feel unprepared, and it will eliminate fear.
My least favorite parts were secret number 1: Be Happy First – if you chase happiness, you’ll never stop chasing; you’ll always want more or better, so “be happy first,” secret number 4: Never Retire – the idea that retirement is a horribly outdated concept and you should never do it, and secret number 5: OverValue You – you should overvalue your time to create more fulfilment per hour.
ADDITIONAL DETAILS
- Genre: Self-Help
- This book is written with lots of visuals – images, comics, and “scribbles”
- Pasricha has a book called The Book of Awesome where he celebrates life’s little moments
This book is quick and seemingly simple, although you could spend a lot more time with it than I have. Some of it’s points are truly enlightening and offer a perspective I had never considered before, whereas others are definitely not my cup of tea. I feel as though this book contains at least one idea that would affect anyone who read it, but I also doubt many people would agree with everything. I will try to implement some of these secrets in my own life, but overall I was not delighted while reading this one. I give it 3 out of 5 stars. ★★★☆☆
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