Review: The Happiness Track: How to Apply the Science of Happiness to Accelerate Your Success

Dustin Flanary
Jul 26, 2017 · 8 min read

“There is a difference between self-awareness — understanding your weaknesses — and harsh self-criticism, which only adds pressure to an already stressful situation and in fact prevents you from achieving your best.”

Intro

The Happiness Track is a book by the Science Director of Stanford’s Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education. It’s about what truly makes us happy and why being happy is important to achieving success.

“If believing that success depends on your strengths on the one hand, and your tendency to self-criticize on the other ends up sabotaging your chances of success, then how can you change your self-beliefs to make them more productive? Research suggests you should replace your belief in strengths with effort, and self-criticism with compassion.”

Ratings

  • Likelihood of recommending a friend to read? 📚📚📚
  • Likelihood of recommending a friend to purchase? 💰
  • Positive Influence: ⭐⭐⭐
  • Time to read: 🗿🗿
  • How related to business? 🕴️🕴️

“Self-control and discipline are undeniably helpful. However, when we exert too much pressure on ourselves, we exhaust ourselves mentally and physically and become less likely to achieve our goal.”

Two or Three Favorite Things



Personal Impact

This book had a light impact on me and confirmed some things I already believed.

Final Thoughts

The book doesn’t really have a conclusion, it just sort of ends after making it’s last point.

Photo by Fernando Brasil on Unsplash

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