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Sumit Saini

Must read for everyone

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on January 6, 2023

This book is a must read if you are interested in knowing more about life in general.

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linda

judgmental and presumptuous

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on February 13, 2021

Disappointing to see a title that says " Finding modern truth in ancient wisdom" referring to the Bhagavad Gita as "cheap". The value of a book lies in its content, not its printing cost. I felt this author's title is not indicative of what is in the book. Although his book is quite expensive, I found his "wisdom" to be shallow. It was disappointing

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Sumit Saini

Must read for everyone

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on January 6, 2023

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This book is a must read if you are interested in knowing more about life in general.

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Dr. Glockenspiel

Haidt établit un dialogue critique entre les sagesses anciennes et ...

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on July 18, 2018

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Haidt établit un dialogue critique entre les sagesses anciennes et la psychologie contemporaine afin de dégager des réponses cohérentes aux questions du sens et des buts à donner à nos vies. Ce sens réside-t-il exclusivement dans le détachement par rapport au soi et aux biens de ce monde ? Dans l'agrandissement de soi par une conquête des plaisirs et des pouvoirs incessante ? En plus d'enrichir votre connaissance des différentes aires du cerveau et de leur rôle dans l'encastrement de la pensée aux émotions et évaluations automatiques (approche ou fuite), vous pourrez vous acclimater à l'idée que l'expérience mystique ou religieuse de l'abolition de soi devant et au sein de la vastité est une dimension constitutive de la nature humaine. Haidt mérite une mention spéciale par sa capacité à mobiliser un vaste éventail de littérature et d'histoires à catactère personnel pour créer cette absorption joyeuse dans l'objet (et dans la relation intérieur / extérieur) que la science et la philosophie ont cessé à dessein de fournir.
Travailler et aimer. Travailler pour ceux et ce qu'on aime, aimer notre travail; ressentir et juger tacitement de la contribution de notre effort à un but plus large ; accroître ses compétences (sa capacité de contrôle d'un environnement fût-il un jardin) : tel est une des clefs de cet ouvrage riche et stimulant.

mots clefs : effectance, vital engagement, flow, self-disclosure, adversity hypothesis, autonomy-, community-, divinity-ethics, quandary moral, virtue & character moral

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Brett Jarvis

Worth the read

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on September 12, 2018

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Ancient philosophy presented through the lens of modern psychology and extrapolated into practical advice. A pleasant, easy to read presentation of 10 great ideas that have emerged in several of the world's great civilizations to address the question of what makes a happy life. Readers will likely have encountered many of these ideas before but Haidt presents them in a way that invites you to consider them in a logical sequence as each chapter / idea builds upon the last. The conclusion is inevitably unsatisfying in terms of answering the ultimate question but leaves the reader with many threads to follow for further reading into positive psychology and a wide range of inter-disciplinary topics.

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Melanie Dekker

Good book. 2 Friends read it at the same time.

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on March 26, 2021

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It's a little like a movie that gets a bit long...it gets a bit long. Great and grateful read.

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linda

judgmental and presumptuous

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on February 13, 2021

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Lisa

The Happiness Hypothesis

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on September 27, 2006

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This was a thoroughly enjoyable and thought-provoking book. Jonathan Haidt was able to put his own prejudices aside in the style of a true scientist and present evidence as to whether our ideas about what makes us happy work or don't work. He is involved in trying to understand in minute detail the factors which motivate humanity towards certain behaviours. He presents evidence which explains how our biology, our brain functioning may result in certain social behaviour and how this has in effect created the human animal in all its manifestations. I would have liked the book to be longer, and for him to have cited more examples. However, the book gave me a fresh perspective on a number of issues and helped me understand others in a new and more thorough way. He manages to do this with humour and a sense of fun which make me wish he'd been my college professor.

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veronica pelicaric

it kept its word

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on January 22, 2021

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To read and have not yet done so

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JPLab26

Enjoyable

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on April 3, 2021

Worth a read

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on August 11, 2014

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I enjoy reading books that expand my vision of the world; this is one of those. The only missed points, for me, were around religion and left vs right politics, both items are too much USA-centric and added nothing of value for me.

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Jonathan

Overall one of my favorite books

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on August 2, 2017

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Absolutely great book! Great insight, great perspectives and really fun to read. A very complete overview of how the mind (both conscious and subconscious) work and their effect on us. Great ideas presented on how we can achieve happiness. Highly recommended!

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