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tanekaberi's review
4.0
Enjoyable discussion of how to find value and meaning by, hmm, means that have always been there but maybe might have become simultaneously out of fashion because you can't just read one book about it and celebrated when the concepts becomes slogans.
sadie_g's review against another edition
informative
reflective
slow-paced
3.25
I read this book for a class so I don’t know if I would have chosen to read it otherwise but I did enjoy it, and I feel like I want to try to use some of the things I learned in this book and apply it to my life.
bennse2's review against another edition
5.0
Offers a different point of view on life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I found it useful and thought-provoking, in addition to easy to read. Highly recommended for people who have read The Happiness Project, and for people who want to enjoy life (kind of joking, kind of not).
sampk's review against another edition
5.0
Initially, i found the book somewhat too academic and did not feel like I could apply it to life, however as the 5 stars would suggest, it was not long before that changed.
As soon as the applications to real life started getting involved, the thinking behind many of the theories, studies and ways of life presented in those book started to make more sense. In fact, I found that I've already been identifying with a lot of what was being explored, I just had not realised that there were names and groups of people behind the way I approached life.
This book taught me a lot about approaching life and whilst it was not in any way life changing, it helped me feel better about my lack of sympathy to traditional self help and motivational books.
I'll definitely continue to keep what I've learnt in mind and hope that others too can find a sense of calm in-between his words.
As soon as the applications to real life started getting involved, the thinking behind many of the theories, studies and ways of life presented in those book started to make more sense. In fact, I found that I've already been identifying with a lot of what was being explored, I just had not realised that there were names and groups of people behind the way I approached life.
This book taught me a lot about approaching life and whilst it was not in any way life changing, it helped me feel better about my lack of sympathy to traditional self help and motivational books.
I'll definitely continue to keep what I've learnt in mind and hope that others too can find a sense of calm in-between his words.
ssejig's review
4.0
It was interesting to me that the author started or with talking about how trying to maintain an artificially optimistic view can send people into a spinning vortex of depression. Being FORCED into the view doesn’t mean that it will happen. In fact, many people will react to the opposite of whatever they’re being told to do: be cheerful, relax, etc. The chapter on uncertainty was also interesting to me -- it makes sense that it would be something that people fear even more than death.
I really liked this book. Was it perfect? No. But it was very readable and made a lot more sense to me than the books that tell us we have to be happy ALL THE TIME.
I really liked this book. Was it perfect? No. But it was very readable and made a lot more sense to me than the books that tell us we have to be happy ALL THE TIME.
neven's review
3.0
Affable and reasonably entertaining, though too slight and journalistic-y to achieve its stated goal. It has neither the precise, presumably actionable recommendations of the self-help books and gurus it rightly mocks, but unfortunately neither the elegant, intoxicating charm of, for example, Alan Watts.
tangereen's review against another edition
5.0
so much better than you would think. touches on some stoic and zen buddhist philosphy. loved it, will read it again, will recommend to everyone i know.
musaup's review
5.0
“Sometimes the most valuable of all talents is not to seek resolution; to notice the craving for completeness or certainty or comfort and not feel compelled to follow where it leads”
“A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent upon arriving. “
“A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent upon arriving. “