Hardwiring Happiness: The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm, and Confidence
About this product
With New York Times bestselling author, Dr. Hanson's four steps, you can counterbalance your brain's negativity bias and learn to hardwire happiness in only a few minutes each day.
Why is it easier to ruminate over hurt feelings than it is to bask in the warmth of being appreciated? Because your brain evolved to learn quickly from bad experiences and slowly from good ones, but you can change this.
Life isn’t easy, and having a brain wired to take in the bad and ignore the good makes us worried, irritated, and stressed, instead of confident, secure, and happy. But each day is filled with opportunities to build inner strengths and Dr. Rick Hanson, an acclaimed clinical psychologist, shows what you can do to override the brain’s default pessimism.
Hardwiring Happiness lays out a simple method that uses the hidden power of everyday experiences to build new neural structures full of happiness, love, confidence, and peace. You’ll learn to see through the lies your brain tells you. Dr. Hanson’s four steps build strengths into your brain to make contentment and a powerful sense of resilience the new normal. In just minutes a day, you can transform your brain into a refuge and power center of calm and happiness. Read more
Editor's Take
Amazon reviewers and Goodreads readers generally describe Hardwiring Happiness as practical, insightful, and useful for people interested in psychology, meditation, or building a more positive mindset. Some readers praise the HEAL method and the book’s actionable exercises, while others say it feels repetitive or too scientific in places. Reddit/forum-style discussion wasn’t available in the retrieved results, but other review sites echo the same split: many appreciate the research-grounded guidance, and some wish the book were shorter and less repetitive.
Review blogs and book-review sites often highlight the core takeaway of “taking in the good,” and several describe the book as especially helpful for readers who want concrete ways to reduce negativity bias and increase calm or confidence. One YouTube result is a direct book review of this exact title, and another is also clearly about this specific book. Because the retrieved results included real YouTube watch URLs, two video IDs are returned below.
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Specifications
| Topic | Mindfulness |
Product Details
| Publisher | Harmony |
| Publication date | December 27, 2016 |
| Edition | Reprint |
| Language | English |
| Print length | 304 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 0385347332 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0385347334 |
| Item Weight | 2.31 pounds |
| Dimensions | 5.16 x 0.64 x 7.98 inches |
| Best Sellers Rank | #31,943 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #54 in Popular Neuropsychology #73 in Buddhism (Books) #199 in Self-Esteem (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars (1,604) |
