The Happiness Advantage-A Book Review

This was one of the “overdue” book-reviews that was siting in one of my computer files until I decided to publish today. The author of this book is too popular to be introduced, and this is one of his internationally best sold books. Yet, I hadn’t read it until a few weeks ago.

As the name of the book suggests, this book is about happiness and how it fuels our brain to succeed. In this book, Shawn explains how ‘happiness’ has been normally interpreted, the thought that success brings happiness, instead of realizing happy people are ‘successful’. 

I’m not Shawn, who has inspired even the most educated and elite people as a teacher, author and a best guest-speaker But I was always in the opinion that happy people are successful. In fact, this was one of my contentions with my husband. I wanted to raise happy children. He wanted to raise successful children!

Shawn has outlined the ‘rules’ to turn peoples’ bad habits into the good ones in "Seven Principles" in this book.  He has explained why happiness is an advantage to successes in numerous examples. 

There are thousand of other books on positivity in the markets. We can read them or listen to hundreds of inspiring lectures. Nothing will happen, unless we’re convinced in our mind that CHANGE IS POSSIBILE. 

This book reinforced my belief that no phycologist, psychiatrist, books, or lecture can change our 'fortune' (make us successful) until we ourselves determine to change our mind and put all our efforts towards making our dream come true. For this change first, we need to define what we dream for, then we need to work hard relentlessly. 

Most people know the meaning of "habit" because it's literal meaning is the same for everywhere. But the words "good" and "bad" are subjective. Because of this, many people find difficulties in turning their bad habits into good ones.