What Happy People Know: How the New Science of Happiness Can Change Your Life for the Better

Stauth, Cameron, Baker, Dan

ISBN 10: 0312321597 / ISBN 13: 9780312321598

Published by St. Martin's Griffin, 2004

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: What Happy People Know: How the New Science of Happiness Can Change Your Life for the Better
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0312321597
• ISBN 13: 9780312321598
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

How to live a happy life--made so simple and doable that you believe it's actually achievable.

Dr. Dan Baker, director of the Life Enhancement Program at Canyon Ranch, has devoted his life to teaching people how to be happy. And apparently, most of us could use a little tutoring. Research has shown that the root of unhappiness--fear--lies in the oldest, reptilian part of our brains, and negative reactions are often dictated by primal instincts. We're literally "hardwired for hard times." In What Happy People Know, Dr. Baker uses evidence from the new science of happiness to show us how we can overcome this genetic predisposition toward negative reactions and lead a truly rich, happy, and healthy life.

In this book, Dr. Baker shares the program that has revolutionized the lives of countless unhappy people, VIP's and regular Joes and Janes alike. First, you'll learn the only two issues that ever cause unhappiness and devise your plan to overcome both of them. Then, Dr. Baker teaches you how to spot the happiness traps, the five doomed ways we try to make ourselves happy, only to dig ourselves further into misery. Finally, he shares his happiness tools, the six simple skills that, when practiced consistently, will inevitably lead to greater optimism, courage, good humor, and fulfillment--in short, to happiness.

About the Authors

Dan Baker, Ph.D., was one of the original developers of Canyon Ranch and has been director of the award-winning Life Enhancement Program there for 15 years. He is the author of books including What Happy People Know and What Happy Women Know.

CAMERON STAUTH is author or coauthor of more than twenty books. He has been editor of The Journal of Health Science; editor-in-chief of The Journal of the Nutritional Academy; a columnist for Natural Health, American Film, L.A. Business, and California Business; and his articles have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, People, The Saturday Evening Post, Prevention, Good Housekeeping, among others. He is the author of In the Name of God. He lives in Portland, Oregon and Sun Valley, Idaho.