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The Conquest of Happiness (1930)
- amelius 7y agoOne summary: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/one-among-many/200905/russell-happiness https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/one-among-many/20090...
- carapace 7y agoIf you are unhappy feed a hungry person.
- SketchySeaBeast 7y agoAre we talking baby bird here?
- carapace 7y agoWhat do you mean?
- SketchySeaBeast 7y agoHow are we feeding the hungry?
- carapace 7y agoGo to the grocery store, buy ingredients for sandwiches, make sandwiches, give them to hungry people that cannot get their own sandwiches, notice that their gratitude generates happiness in yourself. Easy-peasy!
- sp332 7y agoI get what you're saying, but some places do regulate that kind of thing, so it might not be that easy. https://www.politifact.com/florida/statements/2014/nov/17/jack-seiler/jack-seiler-says-arnold-abbott-90-year-old-wasnt-t/ https://www.politifact.com/florida/statements/2014/nov/17/ja...
- Cougher 7y agoThis is bordering on Wayne Dyer-level platitudism.
- carapace 7y agoYou know, my mom has some of his books and tapes, but I've never read/listened to them. What's his deal? - - - - Far from a "platitude" this is a simple, easy, actionable, and reliable way to feel happy. It's not absolutely guaranteed, of course, but consider: Sharing food is recognized, since pre-human times and even cross-species, as kindness. It's the pre-linguistic definition of kindness, and deeply biologically significant. Calories, man. It's physics. Kindness engenders good feelings. The word com-pan-ion literally means to share food together.
- Cougher 7y agoDyerism confirmed.
- dang 7y agoPlease don't be jerk in HN comments. We're trying for something quite a bit different than that here. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the spirit of this site to heart, we'd be grateful.
- kingkawn 7y agoWhen I first read this book I came away thinking that conquest is the wrong working metaphor for this goal
- jp57 7y agoIs there a kindle or epub link to this that works? I get "Item not available" errors from the ebook links in the page.
- duelingjello 7y agoYeap, however the PDF works for me. Maybe throw it into a converter? https://ia800400.us.archive.org/31/items/TheConquestOfHappinessByBertrandRussell1930VTS/The%20Conquest%20of%20Happiness%20by%20Bertrand%20Russell%20%281930%29%20%7BVTS%7D.pdf https://ia800400.us.archive.org/31/items/TheConquestOfHappin...
- duelingjello 7y agoIntelligence can often be inversely proportional to happiness; or: stupidity promotes bliss.