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Happiness (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series)
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Happiness (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series)

by Harvard Business Review, Daniel Gilbert, Annie McKee, Gretchen Spreitzer, Teresa Amabile
April 2017
Beginner content levelBeginner
176 pages
1h 49m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
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The Happiness Backlash

By Alison Beard

Nothing depresses me more than reading about happiness. Why? Because there’s entirely too much advice out there about how to achieve it. As Frédéric Lenoir points out in Happiness: A Philosopher’s Guide (recently translated from its original French), great thinkers have been discussing this topic for more than 2,000 years. But opinions on it still differ. Just scan the 14,700 titles listed in the “happiness” subgenre of self-help books on Amazon, or watch the 55 TED talks tagged in the same category. What makes us happy? Health, money, social connection, purpose, “flow,” generosity, gratitude, inner peace, positive thinking . . . research shows that any (or all?) of the above answers are correct. Social ...

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