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Introduction: Happiness and Your Start-up Life:
Your life is the most important management task you will ever undertake.
Part One: On Managing Yourself
1. How to Succeed at Failure:
Sometimes you just can’t win. Make the most of it.
2. Stop Spending Time on Things You Hate:
Your time on Earth is precious and limited. Here’s how to waste it.
3. Feeling Burned Out? Here’s What to Do:
The way to break the cycle is by creating meaningful boundaries between work and life.
4. Procrastinate This, Not That:
Do your chores now. Put the creative work off for a day.
5. Overwhelmed? Just Say “No”:
The science of how to stop saying “yes” to everything.
6. How to Worry Less and Be Happier:
Start by simply writing down what’s bothering you.
7. Why a Bit of Restraint Can Do You a Lot of Good:
If authenticity leads to acting out, it won’t bring you happiness.
8. Your Money Worries Might Be Hiding Something Deeper:
Once you’ve met your basic needs, riches won’t help you feel better about yourself.
Part Two: On Jobs, Money, and Building Your Career
9. The Happiest Way to Change Jobs:
How to rock your work rather than let the work rule you.
10. Why You Should Trust Your Gut:
Careful, deliberate reasoning can get you only so far in good decision making.
11. Give Your Money. Give Your Time. Don’t Tell Anyone:
You can find deep, lasting happiness in a good deed that no one knows you did.
12. How to Buy Happiness:
The way you spend your money makes all the difference to your well-being.
13. The Two Choices That Keep a Midlife Crisis at Bay:
Middle age is an opportunity to find transcendence.
14. Schopenhauer’s Advice on How to Achieve Great Things:
Three rules that can supercharge your effort, inspired by the 19th-century philosopher.
Part Three: On Communicating and Connecting with Others
15. How to Take—and Give—Criticism Well:
Bad reviews feel terrible, but accepting (and using) them will lighten your load.
16. How to Give a Great Compliment:
Beware of pro forma praise—and recognize true acts of kindness instead.
17. Meetings Are Miserable:
One of the most straightforward paths to happiness is fighting the meeting scourge.
18. The Trouble with Zooming Forever:
It may be convenient, but it will never make us as happy as real human interaction.
19. The Case for Mindful Cursing:
Swearing can make you happier, as long as you do it for the right reasons.
20. How to Speak Truth Without Fear:
And avoid alienating everyone you know.
Part Four: On Balancing Work, Life, and Relationships
21. Jung’s Five Pillars of a Good Life:
The great Swiss psychoanalyst left us a surprisingly practical guide to being happier.
22. How to Influence People—and Make Friends:
The key to persuasion is listening sincerely to what people have to say.
23. Why You Should Stop Worrying About Your Parenting:
You have less effect on them than you think—but your love will make them happy.
24. How to Know Your Frenemy:
That person who poses as your ally but isn’t? They make you sick, literally.
25. Don’t Be Deceived by First Impressions:
We need to move beyond our evolutionary tendency to form snap judgments.
26. What to Do If the Course of True Love Is Not Running Smoothly:
Be prepared for failure, and learn from it, to realize ultimate bliss.
27. 10 Practical Ways to Improve Happiness:
You need advice that goes beyond “Be Danish.”
Part Five: On How You Define Success
28. Why Success Can Feel So Bitter:
Achieving a goal and achieving happiness are entirely different.
29. Why You Might Want to Toss Out Your Trophies:
Are your mementos of personal triumph making you feel like a has-been?
30. The Magic of a Little Danger:
To get happier, be brave—not reckless.
31. How Smart People Can Stop Being Miserable:
Intelligence can make you happier, but only if you see it as more than a tool to get ahead.
32. Think Twice Before Taking the Top Job:
Getting the corner office might mean sacrificing a little happiness.
33. If You Want Success, Pursue Happiness:
Chasing achievement to get happier is a fool’s errand; start with happiness instead.
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Guide
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Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Introduction: Happiness and Your Start-up Life:
Your life is the most important management task you will ever undertake.
Part One: On Managing Yourself
1. How to Succeed at Failure:
Sometimes you just can’t win. Make the most of it.
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments
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