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The Happiness Hypothesis

Jonathan Haidt · 2005 · 317 pages

Recommended by 2 people on the record.

The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

Jason Evanish recommends it affiliate
Whether you want to understand yourself or others, this book is incredible for helping you understand the underlying motivations and causes of happiness. It's great for understanding both your personal and professional life and managing your relationships.

on jasonevanish.com · 28 Oct 2020

Derek Sivers liked it
Psychology professor's digestible but deep insight into how our minds work, around the topic of happiness. Great metaphor of a rider on the back of an elephant. Rider is reasoning, elephant is emotions. Rider has limited control of what the elephant does. Surprising insights into ethics and morality. See my notes for great quotes, but read the whole well-written book.

on sive.rs · 1 May 2010

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.