The Happiness Equation: Want Nothing + Do Anything = Have Everything
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In “The Happiness Equation” New York Times bestselling author Neil Pasricha focuses on how to apply happiness to your life. He shows how to want nothing, do anything, and have everything by unlocking the 9 secrets to happiness.
Each secret addresses a common ideal and presents it from a new perspective, including guidelines and hand-drawn scribbles for applying them towards a happier life.
Some of the principles include:
- The myth of multitasking
- Why success does not bring happiness
- Making more money than a Harvard MBA
- Attaining more choice by eliminating options
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If you have a question or problem, ask us:Table of Contents/ List of Topics Covered:
WANT NOTHING
Secret #1: The First Thing You Must Do Before You Can Be Happy
- 6 words that will forever change how you see happiness
- The single biggest reason it’s so hard to be happy
- The one thing your doctor, teacher, and Tom Hanks all have in common
- How much can we control?
- 7 ways to be happy right now
- A final lesson from the convent
Secret #2: Do This and Criticism Can’t Touch You
- The only goal you set that matters
- What’s the biggest problem with external goals?
- 4 simple words that block all criticism
- Why your dream job could be the worst job you ever have
- The 3 S’s of Success
- The sad and unfortunate reason we listen to critics in the first place
- The secret scribble to increasing your confidence
- 3 simple steps to self-acceptance
- How does Buddha use this secret?
- What does a message secretly hidden under Wimbledon’s Centre Court show us?
- “I don’t stand back and Judge…I do.”
Secret #3: The Three Words That Will Save You on Your Very Worst Days
- The first war you are fighting every day
- The second war you are fighting every day
- The one thing may billionaires want but cannot have
- What does a Greek philosopher have in common with the Rolling Stones?
- When does making a million dollars feel like nothing?
- The classic tale of the Mexican fisherman
- How to use the three words on your very worst days
DO ANYTHING
Secret #4: The Dream We All Have That Is Completely Wrong
- The terrible tragedy of Mr. Wilson
- Thomas Jefferson and Teddy Roosevelt agree on this
- What can the healthiest one-hundred-year-olds in the world teach us?
- The single greatest lesson we can learn from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
- The horrible idea the Germans had that ruined things for everybody
- “When you’re through changing, you’re through.”
- The 4 S’s of work
- The dream we all have that is completely wrong
Secret #5: How to Make More Money Than a Harvard MBA
- What does Harvard do for your salary?
- “Is everyone nuts?”
- The single calculation to find out what you really make
- How does a teacher or retail assistant manager make more than a Harvard MBA?
Secret #6: The Secret to Never Being Too Busy Again
- Do this and you’ll suddenly have space back in your life
- The 3 B’s of creating space
- This is how NASA, Alfred Hitchcock, and Nicole Katsuras use this secret
- Removal #1: How to make every decision at twice the speed
- Removal #2: The counterintuitive way to have more time
- Removal #3: How to add an hour to a day
- “What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare?”
HAVE EVERYTHING
Secret #7: How to Turn Your Biggest Fear into Your Biggest Success
- The childhood trauma that made me quit swimming
- Two barriers we place in front of anything we don’t want to do
- The secret scribble to moving from fear to success
- How does Jerrry Seinfeld use this secret to write comedy?
- It’s not easier said than done, it’s easier done than said
- A 30-secon technique to using this secret in your daily life
- What does the greatest physicist of all time say?
- The advertising slogan everyone knows because it follows this secret
- The single greatest lesson we can learn from Home Alone
Secret #8: The Simple Way to Master Your Most Important Relationship
- “I run a burlesque dancing troupe.”
- This is the most authentic person of all time
- “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
- 3 simple steps to uncovering this secret inside you
- The greatest regrets of the dying and how to avoid them
- “When there are no enemies within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.”
Secret #9: The Single Best Piece of Advice You’ll Ever Take
- “Ninety-seven percent of lung cancer patients are smokers and ninety-seven percent of smokers never get lung cancer.”
- What can we learn from the most common advice of all?
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