Happy - What this book taught me and How it liberated me ?

I have been a big fan of Derren Brown well before he wrote this book. Derren is a mind reader, modern-day illusionist, and a professional hypnotist. He has also been doing one of the best shows on Channel 4, namely "trick or treat" and "Hero at 30000 feet" etc.

With that said, I would like to share a book he has written; its called Happy. And the catchy tagline is, " why more or less, everything is absolutely fine". This book basically teaches us about the principle of happiness and how they can influence our lives. Also, How we can improve our overall happiness and satisfaction.

A few of the main things that this book taught me where are as follows:-

Having Less money can make you unhappy, but having way more wouldn't increase your happiness.

Having less than a certain amount of income can make you unhappy, but once you achieve this right amount, your happiness wouldn't increase much, even if you made way more than this amount. What's interesting is, this amount can vary from person to person and is not as big as we might think. This amount is the minimum to get around well in life.

Thoughts and Actions

One can only change his thoughts and actions, out of this, there's nothing in our control and if you tried to change something out of this domain, you will find it difficult to remain happy. Thus, you have to relinquish control of every unimportant thing. It is to accept that most things and out of your control and to comfortably live with that.

There are a plethora of other useful ways in this book that many different readers might feel appealing, however, I have only outlined those which liberated me.

I might not have very well articulated the book, so do watch the video below to get a real feel.

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