The Blue Zones of Happiness: Lessons From the World's Happiest People
Written by Dan Buettner and Ed Diener
Narrated by Dan Buettner and Patrick Lawlor
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#9679Meet the world's Happiness All-Stars-inspiring individuals whose ways of boosting well-being can influence your home and community as well.
#9679Discover the three strands of happiness-pleasure, purpose, and pride-that weave together in different ways in the world's happiest places.
#9679Use the Blue Zones Happiness Test to pinpoint areas in your life where change could bring more happiness-and then find practical steps to make those changes.
#9679Learn what researchers on happiness consider the top ways to create personal and nationwide happiness, as revealed by a blue-ribbon panel of world experts convened for this book.
#9679Boost your own happiness with the Happiness Power 9-Buettner's final assessment of the most important lessons to be learned from the world's happiest people and places.
Dan Buettner
Dan Buettner is an internationally recognized researcher, explorer, and author. He founded Blue Zones to research and publicize the world's best practices in health, longevity, and happiness. A pioneer in exploration and education, he has traveled the world to answer some of science's biggest questions. Dan's National Geographic cover story on Blue Zones was one of the top-selling covers in the magazine's history, and the book hit the New York Times bestseller list.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5In this inspiring book, Buettner offers game-changing tools for setting up your life to be the happiest it can be. In these illuminating pages, you'll:• Meet the world's Happiness All-Stars—inspiring individuals born in places around the world that nurture happiness as well as Americans boosting well-being in their own communities.• Discover how the three strands of happiness—joy, purpose, and satisfaction—weave together in different ways to make Denmark, Costa Rica, and Singapore some of the world's happiest places.• Use the Blue Zones Happiness Test to pinpoint areas in your life where change could bring more happiness—and then find practical steps to make those changes.• Learn the Top 10 ways to create happiness, as revealed by a panel of the world's leading experts convened specifically for this project.• Boost your own happiness by applying the lessons of Blue Zones Project communities—America's largest preventive health care project, which has already improved the health and happiness of millions of people across the United States.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Dan Buettner shares research on the happiest places on earth and uses that research to help all of us make our workplaces, our homes, and our communities happier places to live. There are several wonderful lists in this book, including the Blue Zones Happiness Test, the fifteen "cowbell" factors that signal true happiness, and the Community Blueprint for Happiness, that are alone worth the price of the book.