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Grit (Angela Duckworth)


Hedonic vs eudaimonic happiness
page: 147
tags: happiness



Made to Stick (Chip Heath)


"All happy families resemble each other, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
page: 23
tags: happiness family



Reality is Broken (Jane McGonigal)


All of the neurological and physiological systems that underlie happiness--our attention systems, our reward center, our motivation systems, our emotion and memory centers--are fully activated by gameplay.
page: 28
tags: happiness

We are wrong in believing that we need life to be a certain way in order for us to be happy, and that the easier life is the happier we are. The relationship between hard work, intrinsic reward, and lasting happiness has been verified and confirmed through hundreds of studies and experiments.
page: 46
tags: work happiness

There are almost no good ways to be happy alone for long.
page: 186
tags: solitude happiness

We have to set concrete goals, and in the pursuit of those goals, we capture happiness as a kind of by-product. We have to approach it sideways, like a crab. We can't let it know we're coming. We just kind of sneak up on it from the side.
page: 214
tags: goals happiness



TED Talks (Chris Anderson)


Don't pin your happiness on the future. "If we can't feel content here, today, now, on our journeys, amidst the mess and the striving that we all inhabit, the open loops, the half-finished to-do lists, the could-do-better-next-times, then we might never feel it." Ben Saunders
page: 69
tags: happiness contentment



The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Benjamin Franklin)


Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
page: 167
tags: happiness