Tag: happiness
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BR340) “The Psychology of Money” Book Review
The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness by Morgan Housel. 3/5 rating. 81 pages. Book #2 of 2024. Read January 15, 2024. This is a short book about why we make the decisions we do about money, and how we can make better ones. I liked a lot of Morgan’s ideas…
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BR287) “The Art of Happiness” Book Review
The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Howard Cutler. 3/5 rating. 286 pages. Book #3 of 2023. Read January 19, 2023. This book was written from Howard’s many interviews and talks with the Dalai Lama. Especially right now, I was hoping for some easy tips and tricks…
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BR274) “The Happiness Project” Book Review
The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun by Gretchen Rubin. 3/5 rating. 289 pages. Book #41 of 2022. Read November 20, 2022. This is Gretchen’s telling of her year of studying happiness and trying to…
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BR71) Stumbling on Happiness Book Review
Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert. 4/5 rating. Book #146 of 2019. Read December 25, 2019. This was a very interesting, light-hearted, yet informative, psychology book. Daniel lays out many of the ways that our brains are really pretty bad at remembering, explaining our current feelings, and properly imagining both the positive and negative aspects…
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30) Jan-Feb 2019 Books Read
Below are the 31 books that I read in January and February of 2019 and some quotes I found interesting or powerful from them (quotes I especially enjoyed are bold). As you may notice, the 4’s are italicized and the 5’s are bold. I have linked these books to Amazon, though just found one option,…
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3) My Views on Money
Money is a topic where everyone has something to say. You can find someone who will state adamantly that you should spend every dime (or even more) to make sure that you enjoy life. But it is as easy to find someone stating the opposite: that you should never spend anything in order to save…