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The Saad Truth About Happiness
- 8 Secrets for Leading the Good Life
- Narrated by: John McLain
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
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Summary
Professor and “de facto global therapist” to an ever-growing audience of hundreds of thousands of people builds on national bestseller The Parasitic Mind to argue that happiness is not merely a changeable mood but a process toward which we can strive by following some basic steps that have been known to humans for millennia.
Happiness is a fact
It is a scientific fact, which means we can measure it, we can assess it, and we can devise strategies to make ourselves happy and fulfilled human beings.
Or so says, Professor Gad Saad, author of the sensational national bestseller The Parasitic Mind and popular host of The Saad Truth podcast. Professor Saad roams through the scientific studies, the wisdom of ancient philosophy and religion, and his extraordinary personal experience as a refugee from war-torn Lebanon turned academic celebrity to provide one of the most provocative, helpful, and entertaining listens you are likely to encounter.
In The Saad Truth about Happiness you’ll learn the secrets to living the good life, including:
- how to live the life you want—not necessarily the life expected of you,
- why resilience is a key to happiness,
- why your career needs to have a higher purpose than a paycheck,
- how variety truly can be the spice of life,
- why marriage is so important,
- how Aristotle had it right when he preached moderation, and
- why you should take a hint from your dog and realize that playfulness equals happiness.
Enlightening, bold, and good-humored, The Saad Truth about Happiness is as lively, stimulating, and captivating as its author, who has become a “de facto global therapist” to an ever-growing audience of hundreds of thousands of people. Listen to this book and you’ll see why so many seek his counsel.
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- Amazon Customer
- 13-06-24
Book Should Be Called 'Why I'm so Amazing' by Gadd Sadd
I love Gadd, and The Parasitic Mind is an amazing book that I think everyone needs to read. Sadly though I think it's success has gone to Gaads head because this book is basically a narcissistic self promotion that I found my self constantly shaking my head at. For a professor of psychology he appears completely oblivious to the amount of self congratulations and name dropping all the way through this book. He's basically saying, "if you want to be happy you have to be exactly like me". Don't get me wrong, if you can see past all this there are some interesting and funny points within the book but the constant references to "yours truly" were actually physically nauseating! I nearly gave up on it several times!
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- Winston Smith
- 03-08-23
A reminder to play through life
Some great nuggets of wisdom in here, but I would have loved to have heard Gaad himself narrating.
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- Jason O'Hanlon
- 19-08-23
A true insight to happiness. What an amazing book
Saad has so much knowledge in so many areas it’s incredible.
This book has given so much information that people know but never know how to comprehend. Gad has this. After reading his first book “the parasitic mind’ it introduced me to Gad. He such an incredible and inspiring person.
If you really want to find happiness. Educate yourself of psychology, biological process and just all around knowledge this book is for you.
Thank you for taking the time to write this Gad Saad. Your an amazing man
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- Adam Brown
- 06-08-23
Usual Gad…insightful, funny and thought provoking.
Fantastic. Love Gads humour and tongue in cheek style. Great book.
Wish you’d narrated it though Gad!
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- Freneticmonk
- 24-10-23
One of my top ten books for 2023 so far
This is one of the best books I have found on living in modern society. Full of inspiration and humour.
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- Anonymous User
- 30-08-23
Gad knows the Dutch exist! That's 5 stars
I never met Gad, but to me, he always sounds like a guy who's easy to hang out with, and easy to like. And I find that vibe in his books. At times an Izzy Stone like theatrical dissident rant, but like Izzy, never unjustified, and most of the time, balancing between the honest fatherlike mentor, and the open en warm friend you've just met.
For me, it was an experience that mainly confirmed my views on life. On one hand, realising so many people around me have changed, made me sad. For instance: there are no free casual meeting places anymore where I live, where people go to meet each other. Other than places where people practice religion, or where the main activity isn't the only priority (like the gym). I feel for example, that traditional 24/7 social coffee houses are disappearing. This makes it hard to actually live by, in a practival sense, some of the advice in the book: needing a membership just to meet people isn't ideal.
On the other hand, knowing that I'm not going crazy, and being able to better justify my thinking, principles and actions, even though I had to deal with set backs, and didn't manage to make my life work yet, is a big win to me. And it's a great comfort.
Most self-help books are floaty, or elitist. Gad doesn't do the guru stuff. He didn't have to produce a self-help book. And it shows. It gives the book an awareness, a roundedness; it's deeply relevant, personal, accessible, and very enjoyable.
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- Kinsley Ian
- 04-08-23
Excellent and enjoyable
Well read, enjoyable, full of tips and advice. I’d highly recommend it. Can’t wait for Gad’s next book!
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- Annie
- 26-08-23
Rambling over nothing.
This book lacks good points, wastes time giving examples of irrelevant things. It is disorganised, not insightful at all. I like the author as a person, that's why I listened to it, but he should get a better editor because this book needs a lot of work. It's just bad. It needs structure and more substance. The structure it has is superficial and he doesn't even stick to it.
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