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The Antidote Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking by Oliver Burkeman
BATB score: 6/10 💭 started out very interesting and then deteriorated with every succeeding chapters; better to read Oliver Burkeman’s more recent masterpiece BATB 9/10 ‘Four Thousand Weeks’ 2021 Best as: key premise - when you expect the worst, you are more calm when the worst actually happen; thus maybe it is better to live with negative thinking and stop forcing positive thinking (because who are you? teletubbies?!) Best for: you know how the book “The Secret” claimed tha


The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin
BATB score: 6/10 🫥 love the fun fact scientific research references; hate the personal vlogs Best to: one year happiness project with monthly OKRs to appreciate the mundane and be a kinder person Best for: happy people are scientifically proven to be more physically attractive 😎 Best as: a very slow book for endless mellow rainy days Best quotes: “To be happy, I need to think about feeling good, feeling bad, and feeling right, in an atmosphere of growth.” “We hugged for at
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