15 Deep Psychology Lessons from the Book "The Happiness Hypothesis"
1. If you are in passionate love, read poetry.
If your passion has calmed, and you want to understand your evolving relationship, read psychology.
If you have just ended a relationship, read philosophy.
If your passion has calmed, and you want to understand your evolving relationship, read psychology.
If you have just ended a relationship, read philosophy.
2. Love and work are to people what water and sunshine are to plants.
3. Happiness is not something that you can find, acquire, or achieve directly.
Some of those conditions are within you, and a sense of purpose and meaning would contribute to it.
Some of those conditions are within you, and a sense of purpose and meaning would contribute to it.
4. Those who think money can't buy happiness just don't know where to shop.
People would be happier and healthier if they took more Time Off and spent it with their family and friends.
Money makes it possible.
People would be happier and healthier if they took more Time Off and spent it with their family and friends.
Money makes it possible.
5. Work on your strengths, not your weaknesses.
It’s difficult to change any aspect of your personality by sheer force of will, and if it is a weakness you choose to work on, you probably won’t enjoy the process.
You’ll soon give up
It’s difficult to change any aspect of your personality by sheer force of will, and if it is a weakness you choose to work on, you probably won’t enjoy the process.
You’ll soon give up
6. There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
7. Letting off steam makes people angrier, not calmer.
Studies showed that those who used their writing time to vent got no benefit.
It was the people who made progress, they benefited.
Studies showed that those who used their writing time to vent got no benefit.
It was the people who made progress, they benefited.
8. People gain a sense of meaning when their lives cohere across the three levels (physical, psychological, and sociocultural), of their existence.
9. Our life is the creation of our mind.
10. Conflicts in relationships—having an annoying office mate or roommate or having chronic conflict with your spouse—is one of the surest ways to reduce your happiness.
11. Stop wasting your money on consumption to impress others.
As a first step, “consume” more family time, vacations, and other enjoyable activities.
As a first step, “consume” more family time, vacations, and other enjoyable activities.
12. Leo Tolstoy wrote: “One can live magnificently in this world, if one knows how to work and how to love, to work for the person one loves and to love one’s work
13. If you want your children to grow up to be healthy and independent, you should hold them, hug them, cuddle them, and love them.
Give them a secure base and they will explore and then conquer the world on their own.
Give them a secure base and they will explore and then conquer the world on their own.
14. Human thinking depends on metaphor.
We understand new or complex things in relation to things we already know.
We understand new or complex things in relation to things we already know.
15. Adversity may be necessary for growth because it forces you to stop speeding along the road of life,
allowing you to notice the paths that were branching off all along, and to think about where you really want to end up.
allowing you to notice the paths that were branching off all along, and to think about where you really want to end up.
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