Hardwiring Happiness: The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm, and Confidence (Unabridged)
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3.9 • 53 Ratings
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Publisher Description
With New York Times bestselling author, Dr. Hanson's four steps, you can counterbalance your brain's negativity bias and learn to hardwire happiness in only a few minutes each day.
Why is it easier to ruminate over hurt feelings than it is to bask in the warmth of being appreciated? Because your brain evolved to learn quickly from bad experiences and slowly from good ones, but you can change this.
Life isn’t easy, and having a brain wired to take in the bad and ignore the good makes us worried, irritated, and stressed, instead of confident, secure, and happy. But each day is filled with opportunities to build inner strengths and Dr. Rick Hanson, an acclaimed clinical psychologist, shows what you can do to override the brain’s default pessimism.
Hardwiring Happiness lays out a simple method that uses the hidden power of everyday experiences to build new neural structures full of happiness, love, confidence, and peace. You’ll learn to see through the lies your brain tells you. Dr. Hanson’s four steps build strengths into your brain to make contentment and a powerful sense of resilience the new normal. In just minutes a day, you can transform your brain into a refuge and power center of calm and happiness.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Why does happiness sometimes feel so elusive? Neuropsychologist Rick Hanson has an intriguing answer. In this fun and readable guide, he argues that our brains are programmed to receive negative messages more clearly than positive ones, since this was once critical to our survival. But there’s good news about that programming—it’s hackable. Hanson outlines an easy-to-follow, four-step strategy for shifting our cave-person mindset for modern times. We learned how to dig through our happiest memories and uncover what makes them so special and enjoyed following Hanson’s valuable exercises for cultivating mindfulness and patience. Hansen’s unflappable narration is as conversational and calming as a meditation app, even when he’s backing up his claims with hard neurological data. Hardwiring Happiness uplifted our mood even before we’d reached the last page.
Customer Reviews
Great content
Lots of helpful content but slightly repetitive. I would recommend getting the book version over the audiobook because it was hard to consume in audiobook format without track names or a pdf table of contents. There are a lot of references throughout the book to check out more in another chapter but with all the audio files just being named track 2, track 34, etc. it’s hard to follow.
HARD. PASS. Massive fail.
This book is boring and amazingly judgy. Did you have a bad day? Whatever you do, don’t compensate by having your favourite meal! Absolutely do not enjoy physical pleasure with a partner or alone. He uses terms that are so similar that it’s hard to keep them straight as he bounces between them. I’m sorry, but 5 chapters in and I don’t have any desire to go on. Let me sum up the book for you. Focus on the positive more to overcome humans’ natural negativity bias and you’ll be happier. Nothing new or groundbreaking here. This is just the same old “think positive” packaged in maybe some science. It’s hard to tell.
Life Changing!
This book came at the perfect time. I had become a victim of circumstance, but this book helped me snap out of it. This book introduced me into a whole new lifestyle. It’s worth the read.