The Art of the Good Life 52 Surprising Shortcuts to Happiness, Wealth, and Success by Rolf Dobelli

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The Art of the Good Life 52 Surprising Shortcuts to Happiness, Wealth, and Success by Rolf Dobelli

Author: Rolf Dobelli

Since antiquity, people have been asking themselves what it means to live a good life. How should I live? What constitutes a good life? What’s the role of fate? What’s the role of money? Is leading a good life a question of mindset, or is it more about reaching your goals? Is it better to actively seek happiness or to avoid unhappiness?

Each generation poses these questions anew, and somehow the answers are always fundamentally disappointing. Why? Because we’re constantly searching for a single principle, a single tenet, a single rule. Yet this holy grail — a single, simple path to happiness — doesn’t exist. Rolf Dobelli — successful businessman, founder of the TED-style ideas conference Zurich Minds, bestselling author, and all-around seeker of big ideas — has made finding a shortcut to happiness his life’s mission. He’s synthesized the leading thinkers and the latest science in happiness to find the best shortcuts to satisfaction in THE ART OF THE GOOD LIFE, his follow up to the international bestseller The Art of Thinking Clearly (which has sold more than 2.5 million copies in 40 languages all around the globe).

THE ART OF THE GOOD LIFE is a toolkit designed for practical living. Here you’ll find fifty-two happiness hacks – from guilt-free shunning of technology to gleefully paying your parking tickets – that are certain to optimize your happiness. These tips may not guarantee you a good life, but they’ll give you a better chance (and that’s all any of us can ask for).

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The life is a pack of cards and you do not seem to have a control over it. Therefore there is a need for a toolkit if you want to play well. Appropriately a 52 point tool kit is proposed by the author based on his life experiences. Each one is a gem. Even though one may not agree with all of them, they are worth pondering. Must read. Sambasivan                                                                                            rated it: 5.0 from 5.0

Really good book the writer gives some really good techniques and tools to overcome bad perspective towards life events. and I really enjoyed the part when he write about how re-reading books is so beneficial … and borrowing one of his sentences ” life is too short for two things : bad reading and hatred ” Adham Elazhari                                                                                       rated it: 5.0 from 5.0