What Happy People Know, Dan Baker, Cameron Stauth
What Happy People Know: How the New Science of Happiness
Can Change Your Life for the Better
by Dan Baker, Cameron Stauth, Rodale Press, 2003. ISBN:1579546021
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"This wonderfully helpful book is sure to increase the number of happy people with its wisdom."--Rabbi Harold Kushner, author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People
"Everyone wants to be happy. So much suffering and illness occur when we look for happiness in the wrong places. In What Happy People Know, Dan Baker distils the best of science and spirituality ... Highly recommended."--Dean Ornish, M.D.,
Dan Baker is a psychologist and director of the Life Enhancement Program at Canyon Ranch in Tucson. Dan Baker quotes: "When you focus on problems...you become bogged down in you own negativity and fear. It's much smarter to focus on possibilities."
Baker argues that people must avoid traps like trying to buy happiness or pursuing "obvious" pleasures. Instead, people can use six happiness tools: appreciation, choice, personal power, leading with strengths, language and stories, and multidimensional living. Paul Baker has some good case studies: he tells one carping, selfish CEO to visit a paediatric cancer ward.
The root of unhappiness--fear--lies in the old, reptilian brain. Dr. Baker uses the new science of positive psychology to show us how to overcome our genetic predisposition to negativity.
Paul Baker reveals the two issues that cause unhappiness and shows you how to
overcome them. Then, he teaches you how to spot five happiness traps. Finally,
he shares his happiness tools--the six simple skills that encourage greater
happiness.
- What Happy People Know by Dan Baker, Cameron Stauth