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Connecting Happiness and Success: Guide to Creating Success Through Happiness by Ray White
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Ray White’s Connecting Happiness and Success: A Guide to Creating Success Through Happiness is an interesting self-help guide on how to reassess your life and change it for the better. White poses the compelling argument that we should focus upon happiness rather than success as, contrary to what many assume, happiness does not follow success. As most people’s definition of success is heavily flawed, we spend far too much time toiling after unattainable goals of wealth and fame and end up discontented and unhappy with our current lot in life. White proposes that to combat this we should instead realize that success follows happiness, and so appreciate and enhance the various facets in our lives which are vital to happiness.
Just the act of reading Ray White’s Connecting Happiness and Success will make you feel motivated to turn your thoughts and actions around to be more positive. While the concepts and practices that White lays out are nothing new, the various academic studies researching the subject of happiness that he references are fascinating - they certainly show that he knows his material well and lend much credence to his arguments on the need for people to redefine their assumptions relating to success and happiness. I also found the many anecdotes that he relates highly entertaining, as they gave his book a nice personal touch. The book further includes many interactive activities and suggestions which will give you a helpful boost in making happiness and thereby success a part of your life. All in all, it was an insightful read.
Ray White’s Connecting Happiness and Success: A Guide to Creating Success Through Happiness is an interesting self-help guide on how to reassess your life and change it for the better. White poses the compelling argument that we should focus upon happiness rather than success as, contrary to what many assume, happiness does not follow success. As most people’s definition of success is heavily flawed, we spend far too much time toiling after unattainable goals of wealth and fame and end up discontented and unhappy with our current lot in life. White proposes that to combat this we should instead realize that success follows happiness, and so appreciate and enhance the various facets in our lives which are vital to happiness.
Just the act of reading Ray White’s Connecting Happiness and Success will make you feel motivated to turn your thoughts and actions around to be more positive. While the concepts and practices that White lays out are nothing new, the various academic studies researching the subject of happiness that he references are fascinating - they certainly show that he knows his material well and lend much credence to his arguments on the need for people to redefine their assumptions relating to success and happiness. I also found the many anecdotes that he relates highly entertaining, as they gave his book a nice personal touch. The book further includes many interactive activities and suggestions which will give you a helpful boost in making happiness and thereby success a part of your life. All in all, it was an insightful read.