Synopsis
Happiness as a Second Language teaches happiness the same way you would learn any language that wasn't spoken in your home. It starts with the most basic concepts of being happy -- learning how to say you're happy and how to count the things that make you happy. The lessons then turn to more complicated techniques -- happy days and weeks, happy colors, happy nouns, verbs and adjectives, and ultimately to advanced concepts, including overcoming the negative form and understanding the past, present, future, and "future uncertain" tense.
Being happy is completely within your reach, but you have to do the work to get there.
This book is the ultimate textbook. The writing is simple and straightforward, the instructions easy to follow, and the sample situations familiar, touching, often heartbreaking and sometimes hysterical. Start now, and you will be fluent in Happiness before you know it.
Happiness as a Second Language teaches happiness the same way you would learn any language that wasn't spoken in your home. It starts with the most basic concepts of being happy -- learning how to say you're happy and how to count the things that make you happy. The lessons then turn to more complicated techniques -- happy days and weeks, happy colors, happy nouns, verbs and adjectives, and ultimately to advanced concepts, including overcoming the negative form and understanding the past, present, future, and "future uncertain" tense.
Being happy is completely within your reach, but you have to do the work to get there.
This book is the ultimate textbook. The writing is simple and straightforward, the instructions easy to follow, and the sample situations familiar, touching, often heartbreaking and sometimes hysterical. Start now, and you will be fluent in Happiness before you know it.
Review
Are you Happy? Do you think your Happy? I thought this and I know some times I feel happy and other times I feel down. I am more than half way through with this book and I am taking the authors advice and going to come back to it regularly. You can sit there and read it all at once or do as I am doing. I was a little hesitant about reading Happiness as a Second Language. I mean who wants to read a book about how to make yourself happy? Like I said when I ask myself am I happy I will reply with a yes. If my husband asks am I happy I will say yes as well. But knowing deep down I am not. I find the exercises helpful in achieving that happiness that I would like. I lost a brother to suicide and my husband failed at it 2 times. Yes 2, you read that right. Knowing that he isn't happy makes me not happy as well. I wonder what I can do to help me be happy. What made him want to take his own life. He will say he is happy at times but not in other times. I liked the part about writing down happy thought 1-5 and how her friend kept them in different places and how #5 was always in bed LOL! I am eager to read at least a chapter a day and see what else I can do to achieve being happy or at least some more tools to help me along the way. Who doesn't want to be happy?
Are you Happy? Do you think your Happy? I thought this and I know some times I feel happy and other times I feel down. I am more than half way through with this book and I am taking the authors advice and going to come back to it regularly. You can sit there and read it all at once or do as I am doing. I was a little hesitant about reading Happiness as a Second Language. I mean who wants to read a book about how to make yourself happy? Like I said when I ask myself am I happy I will reply with a yes. If my husband asks am I happy I will say yes as well. But knowing deep down I am not. I find the exercises helpful in achieving that happiness that I would like. I lost a brother to suicide and my husband failed at it 2 times. Yes 2, you read that right. Knowing that he isn't happy makes me not happy as well. I wonder what I can do to help me be happy. What made him want to take his own life. He will say he is happy at times but not in other times. I liked the part about writing down happy thought 1-5 and how her friend kept them in different places and how #5 was always in bed LOL! I am eager to read at least a chapter a day and see what else I can do to achieve being happy or at least some more tools to help me along the way. Who doesn't want to be happy?