Hardwiring Happiness

The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm, and Confidence

By: Rick Hanson PhD

Narrated by: Rick Hanson PhD

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.

Fantastic Book!

Would you listen to Hardwiring Happiness again? Why?

Yes, and I have multiple times!

What did you like best about this story?

the positivity and incorporation of evidence based theories.

Which character – as performed by Rick Hanson – was your favorite?

n/a

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

yes, laugh, cry, happy, sad, etc.

Any additional comments?

Fantastic book a must buy.

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this is a good book. it is well read. I recommend listening to this book.

Fantastic

The science works. The last chapter is worth listening to every week. Loved the book. It does go a little slow but I liked it as almost a meditation exercise

Definitely a Good LIsten!

Any additional comments?

I listened to the Audible version of Hardwiring Happiness, which was narrated by the author, Rick Hanson. The book included a lot of familiar background material that provided new insights, as well as a good review of psychology 101. I have mixed feelings about listening to the audio version. Hanson’s narration was excellent and it was helpful to just be able to listen and do the meditations. His reading of the practice exercises made them very easy to follow. However, I did miss seeing the charts that were included and may actually check the book out of the library, so I can review them. I think the ideal way to do this book would be to have both the audio and hard copy available. It was definitely a valuable listen and might be even more so if read.

A musr experience....not just for self directed

if u hv done Byron Katie or peeked at Vitalie or even Sheinfeld. ...this will enhance everything u hv learned...spend the money and the time....