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Chasing happiness did not match my life philosophy
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You won't unstuck a person by telling them to unstuck themselves
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Lots of good info and life lessons inside! As an example:
"No matter how many external goals I achieved...I just kept setting more. I started realizing that external goals didn't help me become a better person. Only internal goals did." I definitely saw part of my self here. I have been down that path with running/racing - relentlessly tracking every minute/second/tenth-of-a-second and distance to calculate time/distance pace, setting more goals and different goals - pace...no, distance..trail vs road...multi-events like triathlon or duathlon. I even started doing it with my reading - setting a goal of 2 books/month - then 4 - then let me count the # pages read. Always a next thing, always another level. And I experienced, as the author did, that "extrinsic motivators kill intrinsic motivators." Yep! All that tracking, logging, measuring and documenting would just kill the passion in the end.
The author goes on in his book to explain how to get out of this pit we dig ourselves into. It's not airy-fairy either - he bases a lot of his strategy on actual research done in psychology or business or other legitimate fields. But it's not clinical at all - it's written in a conversational and casual style that made it very quick and easy to read. Not everything in here was applicable to my life, but I definitely intend to refer back to this from time to time for those lessons that are relevant!
"No matter how many external goals I achieved...I just kept setting more. I started realizing that external goals didn't help me become a better person. Only internal goals did." I definitely saw part of my self here. I have been down that path with running/racing - relentlessly tracking every minute/second/tenth-of-a-second and distance to calculate time/distance pace, setting more goals and different goals - pace...no, distance..trail vs road...multi-events like triathlon or duathlon. I even started doing it with my reading - setting a goal of 2 books/month - then 4 - then let me count the # pages read. Always a next thing, always another level. And I experienced, as the author did, that "extrinsic motivators kill intrinsic motivators." Yep! All that tracking, logging, measuring and documenting would just kill the passion in the end.
The author goes on in his book to explain how to get out of this pit we dig ourselves into. It's not airy-fairy either - he bases a lot of his strategy on actual research done in psychology or business or other legitimate fields. But it's not clinical at all - it's written in a conversational and casual style that made it very quick and easy to read. Not everything in here was applicable to my life, but I definitely intend to refer back to this from time to time for those lessons that are relevant!
I love Neil Pasricha's writing style: he speaks of happiness with humour, and explains everything we would like to know about it! It makes the reader want to try!