Rick Hanson
Birth date: October 21
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This book came at just the perfect time. I have been working through Jon Kabat-Zinn’s WHEREVER YOU GO, THERE YOU ARE and I had questions. Namely, I wanted to understand accepting happiness without the use positive thinking. If you’re like me, you grew up on positive thinkers like Zig Ziglar, Napoleo...
Hardwiring Happiness is all about focusing on the little things. It is not, however, just another one of those books telling you ”live in the moment” which are so popular these days. Instead, it focuses on events and feelings that you can pay attention to in order to build up the inner strength you...
Hmm. Here's another book I wish I could give a 3.5 to. I did enjoy it, but it was just a little light on the science for me and a bit heavy on the self-help. That said, it offers a lot of perspective about the powerful effects of positive psychology and reviews the causes/process of suffering. Begin...
This book is a life changer. As a student of Buddhism without delving fully into the practice, this was very enlightening to me. The philosophy of accepting what is and limiting suffering combined with the neuroscience of brain chemistry described by the authors in Buddha's Brain are a cogent and he...
I love this book. It is so easy to use and the advice is really good. In fact, in today’s busy world, this book is a useful tool. I usually don’t review self-help books because I find the advice and the practices a bunch of useless babble. This book is just the opposite. It confirmed what I knew was...