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The Happiness Hypothesis
- Narrated by: Ryan Vincent Anderson
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Politics & Social Sciences, Philosophy
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The best-selling author of The Righteous Mind draws on philosophical wisdom and scientific research to show how the meaningful life is closer than you think.
The Happiness Hypothesis is an audiobook about ten Great Ideas. Each chapter is an attempt to savor one idea that has been discovered by several of the world's civilizations - to question it in light of what we now know from scientific research, and to extract from it the lessons that still apply to our modern lives and illuminate the causes of human flourishing.
Award-winning psychologist Jonathan Haidt, the author of The Righteous Mind, shows how a deeper understanding of the world's philosophical wisdom and its enduring maxims - like "do unto others as you would have others do unto you", or "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger" - can enrich and even transform our lives.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.
What the critics say
"An erudite, fluently written, stimulating reassessment of age-old issues." (Publishers Weekly, starred review)
"The Happiness Hypothesis...has more to say about the pleasures and perils, the truths, of being alive than any book I've read in a long time." (San Francisco Bay Guardian)
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- Kindle Customer
- 2018-09-13
A strong, practical intro to Moral Psychology
Another excellent book by Jonathan Haidt who skillfully and accessibly lures the listener/reader into the fascinating and practical world of moral psychology. I would also highly recommend The Righteous Mind by the same author for similar reasons. It is too bad that Haidt does not narrate this one, but the narrator does a decent job. This difference accounted for the loss of one star in my mind. #Audible1
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- Amazon Customer
- 2019-11-10
I prefer Jonathan Haidt's voice
I wish the author had read the book, he had narrated his other works and I loved them.
6 people found this helpful
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- Earl
- 2019-03-19
Very interesting but somewhat bland performance
Ryan Vincent Anderson doesnt quite do this book justice. Its full of golden, life changing facts and ideas but he reads it in an unemotional, bland way that almost made me want to fall asleep when listening.
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- Nicole
- 2019-05-20
Dry narration.
Valuable content and well written. Definitely an important book. The narration was monotone and flat, which made it hard to digest. I will likely read the book myself at some point.
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- Jason McDowell
- 2019-04-16
Great book
it gets a little'heady' with the neuroscience at times but overall a great read. would recommend
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- Eric
- 2022-04-04
Must read!
This is a great read/listen. Lots of psychologicy related to happiness. I can't write a review that can capture what is in the book. It's super interesting and very helpful.
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- Ami
- 2021-04-24
Just okay; narration is robotic
A bit ambitious as the author covers neuroscience, psychology, religion, philosophy, history, politics, and self help - all in a small book. A good overview though and relevant to many of the main conflicts of our time. Book is filled with humbling lessons.
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- Manar
- 2021-02-13
Lacking Proper understanding of buddhism
The writer is mixing between intuition and subconscious mind which is a result of programming, intuition is a soul nudge on the other hand. Also drug dependency even if it is prescribed, does not develop a sovereign independent individual.
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- JONAS M.
- 2021-01-29
wide scope of topics. poorly read
interesting breadth of topics covered. I did not like the narrator's monotone voice. it definitely took away from my enjoyment of this material
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- NewMom1520
- 2020-10-13
Masterpiece
This book was so good that I got halfway and decided to restart it just to hear some things again. I just finished it.
The narrator had an odd pronunciation of “rider”. I thought he was saying “writer” until I restarted the book.
There were so many good quotes and great insights that I actually ordered the paperback and started reading it.
I definitely think implementation of the ideas in this book can help me improve my life and overall happiness.
This book is just a gem.
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- JAMES
- 2019-02-05
Amazing book, terrible choice in voice.
The information is amazing and instantly applicable. The reader is extremely hard to understand without perfect concentration. I stopped listening and read the hard copy instead. I’m commenting on the issue with audio because this is how I normally consume books and would have appreciated knowing this.
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- Greg
- 2019-02-07
Excellent Book; Highly Recommend
This book was a long read, BUT nearly every chapter was full of riveting examples and useful knowledge.
I’m going to reread this again in a few months; I enjoyed it that much!
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- RRivas
- 2019-02-27
a bit of a mishmash of ideas, but interesting
Overall pretty interesting notions and ideas. Bits on the structure of the brain and the activities that different brain components control was fascinating and may have merited its own book. However, aside from that the book became tedious. The author seemed to skip around ideas about what are the elements of happiness, what are the emotional states that constitute elation associated with religious activity, and where to find wisdom. Overall it was a probably a better listen than it would have been a read. On those activities associated with happiness, specifically strong relationships, fulfilling work, and religious belonging, it seems he didn't have a lot to add that hasn't been discussed in other books. Although an athiest, he does a somewhat spirited defense of those who are religious, arguing that our brains and society have evolved to put us in emotional states that we connect to religious experience. It came off as a bit condescending to religious people, but I'll give him credit on this, since any sort of defense of religiosity probably gets him looked at cross eyed by his academic peers. I had also read his more recent, "The Coddling of the American Mind", which discusses how youth, particularly college age youth, is so much less resilient and more willing to look a the the splinters in others rather than the logs in their own eyes. I was hoping that this book might touch on how the drop in religiosity among youth may have contributed to them less resilient. But alas, the author does not make this connection as I recall. Overall, an interesting book, if a bit sloppy in its organization and presentation. The narrator was also only okay and his presentation didn't seem to fit the material. I would give this a recommendation though, but caveat emptor.
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- L.D.
- 2018-11-22
Amazing & Beneficial - A Must Have!
I wasn’t sure what to expect from this book when I first purchased it, but considering the fact that I highly enjoyed another book that was co-authored by Haidt I decided to give this book a try and am so glad that I did! Not only was this an intriguing book that continuously gave rich information about the mind and how people’s view of the world matters, it also broke down complicated subjects in a way that allowed me to follow along easily and thus reap the benefits of this book’s message. I actually have already listened to it twice and will be going for a third round after finishing a few others.
This book is without a doubt one of my new favorites because of the life-changing advice I was able to absorb, not to mention the fact that it was a delight to get through because of the entertaining way such advice is presented to the reader/listener by the author.
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- Trevor
- 2018-12-09
The origins of "The Righteous Mind"
I first read Haidt's "The Righteous Mind" and so this book goes over much of what he goes into further detail in that book. Given this, I think this book is likely an easier beginning to the ideas more developed in "The Righteous Mind." Overall fascinating ideas, and it's exciting to see the current and ongoing development(s) between science and religion. This book is a taster of Haidt and other moral psychological insights, and then his later book is a home run, in a sense. After reading both this and his other book I no longer really viewed things in what I now perceive to be a weird 'religious' vs. 'secular' mindset. I now think of almost all human group activity in a wider range, so that any radical group behavior, secular or religious, takes on the term 'fundamentalist' or 'radical,' among other useful ways of viewing the problems and limits in any perspective (and specifically the very heated US political Republican vs. Democrat positions). I now find myself in a spot in which I am pretty moderate with a libertarian flare, without agreeing fully with a lot of various policy issues (more so thinking that living personally in a libertarian manner promotes more self-respect and choice, but understanding that many libertarian policies may in actuality just be bad... this gets into Haidt's great distinction between useful and often correct personal intuitions in interpersonal relations but that on the scale of policy trusting intuitions is often terrible and has bad results).
In short: read or listen to this book and Haidt's following book, "The Righteous Mind," and (hopefully) expand your mind and worldview a bit further beyond limited partisanship and tribalism.
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- Gary
- 2019-02-17
Fertilizer for the mind
This is a great thought provoking book. It had me questioning my purchase on more than one occasion only to bring me right back to understanding a few lines later.
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- Kristen Hagar
- 2018-08-23
I feel happier already
I really enjoyed the way this book chose a few main topics to focus on from ancient ideas, then brought forth evidence for or against these ideas from scientific literature. Haidt is truly brilliant and I could stop and think about every few sentences in his writing and get so much out of it. I’m sure I will keep listening to this one in the future.
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- the dude
- 2019-02-28
good book not great
great few chapters i love the binomial mind analogy of the rider and the elephant, then he seems to go deep with religion as it becomes the dominant focus of the last 4 chapters. I recommend it up to chapter 4 or 5 then skip to last 2 minutes of chapter 10 and the whole last chapter.
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- Smaranda Nicolau
- 2018-06-19
Awesome book, poor performance
Incredibly well-researched book, compelling arguments, perhaps at times a little bit too self-assured but definitely very valuable for our times and extremely common-sensical. Would have enjoyed much much much more had the performance caught any of the humor and irony obvious in the tone of the writer and sadly completely absent in this monotonous reading... so, a much better read than a “hear”, too bad. Still, I listened to the whole thing and am the better for having gained the knowledge in this book.
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- josh colvert
- 2018-10-18
A message our divided culture needs
This is one of the most fair-minded and intellectually honest books I have read. The author does an excellent job of laying out his thesis without ever becoming dogmatic or didactic. The content is well researched and academically sound yet engaging and easy to read. Throughout the book, Jonathan Haidt hits the nail on the head again and again and again.
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- dgrv
- 2022-04-04
Not sure about this
I am of two minds on this book.
On one side, it stimulated me a lot and I found it interesting to listen to. It did tend to echo with my own thoughts and I found it enjoyable and even original at times.
But at some point in the book, I realized it was saying what I wanted to hear too much, and I found it suspicious. So I stopped and dug up more about the author and the book. And I do find that as soon as we get further away from solid research, there is a lot of personal opinions and privileged, biased and somewhat blind views of other humans' problems. A number of the examples, solutions and problems appeared disingenuous, or simplistic.
It also doesn't help that a lot of the research on which this is based is either flimsy or simply didn't hold up.
So I would argue this might be an interesting book to stimulate your brain, but it requires an attentive reading to spot inaccuracies, manipulations, omissions, biases,...
If you're interested in the research about this subject, I'm sure there are more recent and serious books.
The audiobook itself is good and very enjoyable.
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- Syren G.
- 2020-11-12
Good book but boring and unexpressive reader
I learned a lot about the elephant and the rider inside ourselves, very interesting perspective, open minded but with strong convictions about his beliefs which are based on theories, facts, studies and experiments.
The only thing is the narrator, too unexpressive that it is hard to understand when you are not a native English speaking...
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- Caroline Bewley
- 2020-11-11
Great book, appalling narration
Jonathan Haidt is a god, love how his mind works and he's an amazing performer too. So I was devastated to have to listen to this chap murder the whole book. My advice? Buy the print version.