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Ebook About The Sunday Times Bestseller'Really brilliant and just crammed with wisdom and insight. It will genuinely make a difference to me and the way I think about myself.' Stephen Fry___Everyone says they want to be happy. But that's much more easily said than done. What does being happy actually mean? And how do you even know when you feel it?In Happy Derren Brown explores changing concepts of happiness - from the surprisingly modern wisdom of the Stoics and Epicureans in classical times right up until today, when the self-help industry has attempted to claim happiness as its own. He shows how many of self-help's suggested routes to happiness and success - such as positive thinking, self-belief and setting goals - can be disastrous to follow and, indeed, actually cause anxiety.Happy aims to reclaim happiness and to enable us to appreciate the good things in life, in all their transient glory. By taking control of the stories we tell ourselves, by remembering that 'everything's fine' even when it might not feel that way, we can allow ourselves to flourish and to live more happily.___What readers are saying: ***** 'Immensely positive and life-affirming'***** 'This is the blue print to a good life'***** 'Thought provoking and potentially life-changing.'Book Happy: Why More or Less Everything is Absolutely Fine Review :
I read about 5 books a month and I am pretty well-versed in Stoic philosophy. I have also read Bertrand Russel's classic, The Conquest of Happiness so you might say that I was familiar with many of the themes in Derren Brown's book, and that is why, perhaps, I purchased it without expecting too much from it.The book has completely exceeded all my expectations. Sometimes we can read about an issue, or hear a point discussed without fully grasping it. Then someone else makes the same point and we experience a sort of epiphany.That was the case with me in reading Happy. There was nothing I had not already heard in one way or another, but Brown, through his warmth and humility and exceptional choice of language, introduced me to new insights which had previously escaped me.Look, there's a reason I read Lucretius and Epictetus and Seneca and Marcus Aurelius. For the last few years I had been traversing, to quote Dante, "una selva oscura, che la via diritta era smarrita." Derren Brown's book is exactly what I needed to read. My mood has changed significantly. Dare I say it? I am happy. Thank you Derren. Update #1: 237 pages in. Buddhism. Derren Brown has discovered Buddhism. If he weren't so painfully, myopically focused on the Greco-Roman/Christian, Western European model of history and philosophy, one would assume this fact would be painfully obvious. It's Buddhism, Derren - minus Buddha and reincarnation perhaps, but just poorly fleshed-out Buddhism. Cobbling together and filling in the gaps of Greco-Roman philosophy isn't necessary, it's Buddhism. Congratulations.I received this book today and (it being a "free day" for me) I'm already 130 pages through the roughly 550 page text. First I should say I quite enjoy Derren Brown - his television and stage performances, his writings, and also his public persona (which one can only imagine aligns with his private persona). This book started off strong, and then like an overweight and bitter child in a relay race it's flagging... hard. Not only would what I've read in 130 pages be best served in 60, but I feel like the final illusion of the book may have already been revealed by Brown himself in his recounting of an expiriment where people were willing to endure more "pain" (by holding their hand in cold water for 60 seconds) for a good end (an additional 30 seconds in 1 degree warmer water) rather than endure less "pain" by opting for the quicker option (only 60 seconds of hand-in-water). As he says, in stage shows the best bit is saved for last, and no matter how mediocre the show a truly grand finally can leave the audience singing the praises of on overall bland offering.So far, this is a bland offering.After an engaging intro full of lofty promises the reader feels as if suddenly dropped into a Western Philosophy 101 class - and a pass/fail lecture class - judged on attendance only - at best. So far in the text, all of human historical philosophy has been reduced to four Greco-Roman schools of thought and Christianity, which is pretty impoverished even for a 101 pass-fail pre-req lecture. Derren is obviously not Christian (and for what it's worth neither am I) and yet the text is as riddled with backhanded Christian slights as an embittered, drunk mother-in-law at Thanksgiving dinner, to the point where it's becoming exhausting - for a philosophy with purportedly so little value, Brown devotes an incredible amount of time to bashing it (quite frankly Shakespear's "me-thinks the lady doth protest too much" comes to mind) while simultaneously equating Christianity with religion as a whole (quite myopic) and ignoring the entirety of world religion and philosophy which isn't Greco-Roman/Christian.Perhaps this will evolve into something of purpose. I trust the finale will likely be spectacular, in true Brown style. His writing is lucid and was, intially, engaging. There've been several poignant tidbits amidst the almost pedantic watering-down and cherry picking... to be honest his use of quotations in the texts brings to mind a term paper in which the teacher has specified two-dozen authors per hundred pages must be quoted, and quatations seem inserted more to add literary heft and philosophical legitimacy rather than for any actual necessity or illumination of the reader.It's genuinely starting to be a slog. I'll update as I plow ahead. "Crew's spirits are flagging, not sure if the expedition will reach the summit." 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