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Find meaning and happiness
Purpose, joy and a life well lived. 9 books, 156 bytes, about 1 hr 44 min of reading in total.
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Man’s Search for Meaning
21 key learnings from a psychiatrist who survived the Nazi camps, on finding meaning even in suffering.
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Ikigai
21 key learnings from Okinawa, home to some of the world’s longest-lived people, on purpose, health and happiness.
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The Happiness Hypothesis
16 key learnings on finding modern truth in ancient wisdom about happiness.
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The Book of Joy
16 key learnings from a week of conversations between the Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu.
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The Art of Happiness
16 key learnings from conversations between the Dalai Lama and a psychiatrist on happiness.
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The Courage to Be Disliked
16 key learnings from a dialogue on Alfred Adler's psychology of freedom and happiness.
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Stumbling on Happiness
16 key learnings on why we're bad at predicting what will make us happy.
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Tuesdays with Morrie
16 key learnings from Mitch Albom's visits to his dying professor, and the lessons he shared.
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When Breath Becomes Air
18 key learnings from a neurosurgeon’s memoir about meaning, mortality and what makes life worth living.
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