15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
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Happiness breeds happiness as well as success, 29 April 2011
This review is from: The 18 Rules of Happiness: How to Be Happy (Kindle Edition)
This isn't your typical cheap eBook. The book is professionally formatted and runs more than 100 pages. It provides you a systematic approach to achieving and maintaining real happiness. First, the author pulls you out of your currrent state and sort of shakes you up a bit. This is important, if you're like me you whine when you are down and it's time to lose that attitude as well as some other habits. Only then have you "cleaned closet" well enough to be happy, truly happy. I appreciated the author of The 18 Rules of Happiness guides us from one step to the next. These are more 18 steps in an overall technique and plan than rules. And that is good! He walks us by the hand through the journey of happiness. Before you finish you will be not only happier internally but you will be affecting others the same way. You will be more social and interacting with others and you will spread your happiness around - and that is the real reason to get happy - to spread it around. This is an excellent publication.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Try it for yourself, 31 Dec 2011
This review is from: The 18 Rules of Happiness: How to Be Happy (Kindle Edition)
This is a difficult book to review objectively - like alot of self help books, whether or not the reader will find it helpful is completely subjective.
As obectively as I can be - this ebook is formatted well and was very easy to read. I read it cover to cover in about an hour and 1/2 so if you want either a "quick read" rather than anything too deep and meaningful, or haven't read any other books on the subject before, this may be a good one to start with. If you have read quite alot on the subject already, this book may also be useful to act as a reminder of some of the basic principles of finding happiness. Each of the 18 rules are discussed in individual chapters making it easy to refer back to paricular points at a later date if you want to.
The down side is that each subject is not discussed in any detail and whilst some of the points made are valid, they are very over simplified. The author does give suggestions on things you can actually do to find happiness - change how you think, go out with friends more often, take up a new hobby etc.. but does not acknowledge such changes are not always as easy to do as they are made to sound. The author also fails to discuss the changes in perception the reader needs to make both of self and the world around in order to put each rule into practice in the first place. I personally did not find this book helpful and did get bored reading it although persevered to the end. There are alot of books out there which are far more thought provoking and if you've read any of them and been inspired to read more, this book is probably not for you.
I downloaded my copy of this book onto kindle and it cost me 49p so my advice would be to read the book for yourself - if it doesn't help it won't have cost you the earth to find this out and if it does help, you've probably got the bargain of a life time.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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This Book made me happpy, 27 April 2011
This review is from: The 18 Rules of Happiness: How to Be Happy (Kindle Edition)
Karl Moore is a great writer, this is the 2nd of his books I have read and I'm certainly looking forward to more! I usually hate 'Self help' kind of booksas they are often cliché and take advantage of your willingness to find happiness but this one really had showed me the 'Rules of Happiness' in such a simple way. I found it inspirational and feel like a generally more positive outlook on life. Priceless Book.
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