THE HAPRINESS
EQUATION
WANT NOTHING + DO ANYTHING = HAVE EVERYTHING
3 Ways to Get the Most out of This Book
3. Agree to disagree. You will not agree with all nine secrets the first time you read them. That's okay. Expect to disagree. But remember you have the power to slowly let new ideas into your brain whenever you like. A hundred years before neuroplasticity became a buzzword, American philosopher William James said, "Plasticity, in the wide sense of the word, means the possession of a structure weak enough to yield to an influence but strong enough not to yield all at
once.'
2. Change your scenery. Reading this book cover to cover in one night is fine. But if you change your scenery, you'll get more out of it. A chapter in the buzzing airport, a chapter at the beach, a chapter in bed before flicking off your lamp. Our brains are stimulated by different air, smells, and sounds. Everywhere you read the book you'll get something different from it and you'll more easily recall the lessons. Carry this book as you're moving.
1. Create a seven-day challenge. Any time you read an idea in this book that you want to try, give yourself a seven-day challenge. Write down every day in your calendar for seven days "Do X" and then try to do it. If you can do it for seven days, you just proved you could do it for seven days. Then you can do it for another seven days. Then it becomes a habit. Aristotle says, "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
Want Nothing Secret #1
The First Thing You Must Do Before You Can Be Happy
1. 6 words that will forever change how you see happiness
2. The single biggest reason it's so hard to be happy
3. The one thing your doctor, teacher, and Tom Hanks all have in common
4. How much can we control?
5. 7 ways to be happy right now
6. A final lesson from the convent
Secret #2 Do This and Criticism Can't Touch You
1. The only goal you set that matters
2. What's the biggest problem with external goals?
3. 4 simple words that block all criticism
4. Why your dream job could be the worst job you ever have
5. The 3 S's of success
6. The sad and unfortunate reason we listen to critics in the first place
7. The secret scribble to increasing your confidence
8. 3 simple steps to self-acceptance
9. How does Buddha use this secret?
10. What does a message secretly hidden under Wimbledon's Centre Court show us?
11. "I don't stand back and judge ... I do."
Secret #3
The Three Words That Will Save You on Your Very Worst Days
1. The first war you are fighting every day
2. The second war you are fighting every day
3. The one thing many billionaires want but cannot have
4. What does a Greek philosopher have in common with the Rolling Stones?
5. When does making a million dollars feel like nothing?
6. The classic tale of the Mexican fisherman
7. How to use the three words on your very worst days
Do Anything
Secret #4
The Dream We All Have That Is Completely Wrong
1. The terrible tragedy of Mr. Wilson
2. Thomas Jefferson and Teddy Roosevelt agree on this
3. What can the healthiest one-hundred-year-olds in the world teach us?
4. The single greatest lesson we can learn from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
5. The horrible idea the Germans had that ruined things for everybody
6. "When you're through changing, you're through."
7. The 4 S's of work
8. The dream we all have that is completely wrong
Secret #5
How to Make More Money Than a Harvard MBA
1. What does Harvard do for your salary?
2. "Is everyone nuts?"
3. The single calculation to find out what you really make
4. How does a teacher or retail assistant manager make more than a Harvard MBA?
Secret #6
The Secret to Never Being Too Busy Again
1. Do this and you'll suddenly have space back in your life
2. The 3 B's of creating space
3. This is how NASA, Alfred Hitchcock, and Nicole Katsuras use this secret
4. Removal #1: How to make every decision at twice the speed
How do the President of the United States and the CEO of Facebook make every decision at twice the speed?
The curious case of Benjamin Lee
The most exhausting idea I've ever had
285 reasons why you're tired right now
What do you find every morning and lose every night?
The only person whose rules you have no choice but to follow
The unanticipated joy of being totally stuck
4 simple words that will help you prioritize everything
5. Removal #2: The counterintuitive way to have more time The single law that determines how long anything takes to do How do you cut all meeting time in half? How do you complete a three-month project in one day?
6. Removal #3: How to add an hour to a day with only one small change How to protect your most valuable asset The greatest misconception you share with every other employee The only two modes your brain actually has and how to use them One of the hardest and most important things you will ever do at work
7. "What is this life if. full of care, we have no time to stand and stare
Have Everything
Secret #7
How to Turn Your Biggest Fear into Your Biggest Success
1. The childhood trauma that made me quit swimming
2. Two barriers we place in front of anything we don't want to do
3. The secret scribble to moving from fear to success
4. How does Jerry Seinfeld use this secret to write comedy?
5. It's not easier said than done, it's easier done than said
6. A 30-second technique to using this secret in your daily life
7. What does the greatest physicist of all time say?
8. The advertising slogan everyone knows because it follows this secret
9. The single greatest lesson we can learn from Home Alone
Secret #8
The Simple Way to Master Your Most Important Relationship
1. "I run a burlesque dancing troupe."
2. This is the most authentic person of all time
3. "Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
4. 3 simple tests to uncovering this secret inside you
5. The 5 greatest regrets of the dying and how to avoid them
6. "When there are no enemies within. the enemies outside cannot hurt vou."
Secret #9 The Single Best Piece of Advice You'll Ever Take
1. "Ninety-seven percent of lung cancer patients are smokers and ninety-seven percent of smokers never get lung cancer."
2. What can we learn from the most common advice of all?
Want Nothing
-LAO TZU
Be content with what you have. Rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.
-SENECA
You can't have everything. Where would you put it?
-STEVEN WRIGHT
Do Anything
NURSE IN THE GUARDIAN IN THE
I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.
-THE NUMBER ONE REGRET OF THE DYING. REPORTED BY A PALLIATIVE
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything-all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure-these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
-STEVE JOBS
Remind yourself. Nobody built like you. You design yourself.
-JAY Z
Have Everything
-C. G. JUNG
The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.
When I was five years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down "happy." They told me I didn't understand the assignment. I told them they didn't understand
-ATTRIBUTED TO JOHN LENNON
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.
-MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO
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