The High Performance of Happiness
Author: David Fischman
When I get an invitation to the talk of presenting this book, which was to be held in the auditorium of Interbank, was questioned by a few minutes to attend that day, as it was not an avid reader of books of David, which had only vague references, but for work had had much contact indirectly to the ideas and proposals on issues that David had nothing to do with happiness, but with innovation and enterprise deployment, and I thought that his ideas were pretty good and worked pretty well, demonstrating his great knowledge these issues, and at that moment I first found out I had a book about it titled "When leadership is not enough", which will be the subject of another blog.
After the talk, I was happy with it, the combination of studies on happiness, cartoons representing the main ideas and phrases you do not forget the message of the book sparked my interest in buying the book, which acquired the same day at the conference, which I do not regret it.
In the book David tells us to increase our happiness we need to work on two fronts: learning to be less infelicess, freeing us from our pain and learn to be happier with the approach and exercises posed in his book. By comparing the human being with a hot air balloon, hot air is the positive emotions, those that allow us to rise and live a happy and fulfilling life, and weights, all the negative emotions that we fall and we land.
In his book he says that a study showed that 50% of happiness depends on genetics, 10% of the circumstances and 40%, of our will. That is why the book focuses on how to have the 40% hot air globle depends on us, is more full of hot air of happiness and let us rise in our lives.
Happiness is defined as the feeling that comes from having positive emotions or to be satisfied with our lives, then clarify that happiness is not a goal, not something that consigueré "when you get a. ..."," when you ...." or "when I get ..." but in the way it "comes as a. ..", "as having come ...."," while get ....". David also gives us a number of reasons why we should be happy, be living longer, healthier, have better marital relationships, tolerate the pain, achieve better income or achieve profitable companies and shareholders happy, in short be happy is highly profitable.
The problem is that many people seek happiness in circumstances or in things, but in the end we adapt to having them or having them, and that satisfaction or dissatisfaction that we managed to achieve, or take away, and returned to the situation where we were at the beginning, for it took a phrase from the book "Happiness is not a station that is reached, but a way to travel."
In his book, David used a mnemonic to teach what makes us happy and how to be happier: Positive emotions, sociability and marriage, Transcendence, action, passion and religion and spirituality.
- Positive emotions make us happy, while most of them have, the happier we are.
- As for socializing, has shown that people who have social support networks are stronger happier.
- Human beings have a need to feel that their life has a purpose, which is why the importance is so important, because we feel that our life is worthwhile.
- You find happiness when you perform actions that you are passionate, those where you feel he has talent and is aware of the enjoyment we feel when performing this activity.
- Both religion and espiritulidad contribute to happiness by the comforting belief for social groups and support because it makes us feel connected with "something transcendent."
Along with all these approaches, exercises that help raise awareness about our current situation and to work.
Today I am developing the Happiness Notebook that accompanies the book, and I think a very good tool for those who want to take seriously this little work to be happy. Taking the title of the movie starring Will Smith "The Pursuit of Happyness" might respond that this book can find a way to it.
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