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    How to be happy according to science. Forget self help. Here is what really works to find true happiness and be more optimistic
    How to be happy according to science. Forget self help. Here is what really works to find true happiness and be more optimistic
    How to be happy according to science. Forget self help. Here is what really works to find true happiness and be more optimistic
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    How to be happy according to science. Forget self help. Here is what really works to find true happiness and be more optimistic

    By Alex Carver

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    ¿How to be happy?

    I think there is no more important question, and, believe it or not, science has studied what works to be happier and live a more fulfilled life. If you want to be happier and less depressed, there are things that you can do, and they are really effective in the real world.

    Forget empty promises and forget the unproven theories of traditional self help. Many of those things don’t work or, even worse, they are more harmful than you think when you put them to the test.

    If you have ever wondered "how can I be happier?" In these pages you will know what has been proved to be effective.

    Now, many self help books are based on myths. Did you know that widespread techniques like visualization or positive affirmations not only don’t work, but they sabotage our efforts to be happier? Well, that’s true, when they were studied, those who applied these techniques, as you will see in the book, ended doing worse.

    We live trapped by those myths, and many others, regarding happiness. If you are sick and tired of all those things that don’t work, you are in the right place. This book contains only the techniques that brought real results.

    Some of the things that you will learn in this book.

    + What’s the element that self help constantly ignores in the happiness equation. Hint: it’s the element that gives more dramatic results when you work on it.

    + The real relationship between money and happiness.

    + The easy physical changes that will improve your mood and happiness almost overnight.

    + The daily practice that makes us happier (and it only takes a couple of minutes).

    + The mental tool that really works to be happier with ourselves.

    Everything proven with real studies. I don’t think science is the be-all end-all, but it’s the best tool that we have. It has answered most of your questions regarding happiness and you will find the most important answers in these pages.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAlex Carver
    Release dateMar 1, 2015
    ISBN9781507067215
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      How to be happy according to science. Forget self help. Here is what really works to find true happiness and be more optimistic - Alex Carver

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      INTRODUCTION (DON’T WORRY IT’S VERY SHORT)

      I was a cynical disbeliever, really. I wanted to burn every book with a title that looked like this one. So if you feel the same way, I understand that. But the truth was that I was a cynic that, at the bottom of my heart, wanted to be happy. I just did not want to spend my money and my time in books and gurus that repeated the same things that did not work. Unfortunately, that's pretty common, and many of them know that what they say does not work and they don't care, because they earn a lot of money with that.

      I also knew that perpetual happiness did not exist, that there is no safe haven for the bad things that we all must experience: the lost of a loved one, heartbreaking, stress, illness... Loss and pain are unavoidable, we are humans and life is what it is. Those who propose a silly optimism, no matter the situation, are fools or psychopaths.

      But it was also true that, 99% of the time that I had a dark cloud over myself, it was not because illness or loss. My parents were there, my job was not really bad but, even then, I could not be happy. I had lost the joy that you have when you are younger, more naive maybe. I barely smiled and my jaw was always tense.

      Then, I did what I always do, because I've been called too rational and maybe obsessive. I tried to learn what we really know about happiness, what has been proved to be true. Instead of repeating the same washed out concepts of traditional self help, I dug into the science of happiness.

      Soon, I learned one thing: pretty words are not necessarily true. Many self help predates from this. They repeat nice things that sound wonderful, but when you take a hard look, you see that many of them don't work. What's worse, some of them have nasty side effects.

      I don't think science is the be-all end-all, but I think it's the best tool that we have. So I researched all that I could, and I discovered that happiness is a topic that interested us from the very beginning. And it has been quite well studied too. From its genetic component to its biological and psychological roots. We know that there are things, real things, that make us happier if we do them. And it's not an imagined happiness, it's real, measurable through biomarkers.

      Even better, we don't need strange doctrines or leaps of faith to be happier, we need what works and that's what we are going to see in this book.

      I wanted to make these pages short and to the point. I've read a lot, and many books fill a lot of space with nothing, just repeating a core idea that can be explained in five pages. I get it, they do it because those books must be profitable. But today, with ebooks, we no longer have that restriction.

      Now, you won't find everything in here, but you will find the most important things. If you try to encompass everything, you end learning nothing. And I want you to put these pages into practice, so it's important that we see only what's most effective.

      When I talk about happiness, I'm talking about real happiness, feelings and mood, not about building some elaborate lie in our heads that we keep repeating to ourselves.

      And one last thing, Alex Carver is a pen name. This is not my job, and I don't want to be a guru. I'm just an obsessive cynical that stopped being so cynical, because what we are going to see here worked for me, and worked for many other people that tried. Nothing here is unproven or works against human nature, on the contrary. This is real, and I thought: this should be known by everybody.

      So here we are. Let's begin.

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      WHAT THIS BOOK IS NOT ABOUT

      I think this is a book for smart people, so I won’t make fake promises about eternal happiness or constant euphoria. That’s simply impossible. And I’ve seen those promises in some books, I’ve heard

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