The happiness equation: want nothing + do anything = have everything

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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? Contents note continued: 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

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
Contents note continued: 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 you"
Contents note continued: 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?

The Happiness Equation is a book that will change how you think about everything—your time, your career, your relationships, your family, and, ultimately, of course, your happiness.
What’s the formula for a happy life?
Neil Pasricha is a Harvard MBA, a Walmart executive, a New York Times–bestselling author, and a husband and dad. After selling more than a million copies of his Book of Awesome series, he now shifts his focus from observation to application.
In The Happiness Equation, Pasricha illustrates how to want nothing, do anything, and have everything. If that sounds like a contradiction, you simply haven’t unlocked the 9 Secrets to Happiness.
Each secret takes a common ideal, flips it on its head, and casts it in a completely new light. Pasricha then goes a step further by providing step-by-step guidelines and hand-drawn scribbles that illustrate exactly how to apply each secret to live a happier life today.
Controversial? Maybe. Counterintuitive? Definitely.
The Happiness Equation will teach you such principles as:
· Why success doesn’t lead to happiness
· How to make more money than a Harvard MBA
· Why multitasking is a myth
· How eliminating options leads to more choice

https://www.penguin.com.au/books/the-happiness-equation-9781785041204