The Blue Zones of Happiness

Lessons from the World's Happiest People

By: Dan Buettner, Ed Diener

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor, Dan Buettner

In this inspiring book, Buettner offers game-changing tools for setting up your life to be the happiest it can be. In this illuminating book, you'll:

• Meet the world's Happiness All-Stars - inspiring individuals whose ways of boosting well-being can influence your home and community as well.
• Discover the three strands of happiness - pleasure, purpose, and pride - that weave together in different ways in the world's happiest places.
• Use the Blue Zones Happiness Test to pinpoint areas in your life where change could bring more happiness - and then find practical steps to make those changes.
• Learn what researchers on happiness consider the top ways to create personal and nationwide happiness, as revealed by a blue-ribbon panel of world experts convened for this book.
• Boost your own happiness with the Happiness Power 9 - Buettner's final assessment of the most important lessons to be learned from the world's happiest people and places.

©2017 Dan Buettner (P)2017 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

The Blue Zones of Happiness Lessons from the World

This is one of the best books I've read/listened to as I was able to relate to the contents. I visited Costa Rica 2 years ago and was amazed at the pace of life and the ease in which people went about their daily lives in the blue zone. This book brought it full circle and helped me to fully understand the way of life in Costa Rica, and all the other blue zone countries. The stories were enlightening and took me deep into the heritage of blue zone living, of which I would love to live!

Fantastic

So much wonderful insight into what really matters in life. Excellent reminder to spend more time with friends and family

a great guide with plenty of actual items to help

a great guy with many action items to help you and those around you live a happier life

Interesting and insightful

Dan Buetter has gotten another interesting book out of his research. Just a note, a lot of his research is anecdotal. This is fine. Just understand this as you listen. A lot of lists in this book. This helps make it more concise but can make it a bit boring.
I took away: love others, have a good partner and solid friendships. Move a lot, volunteer often and follow you bliss and you will be happy!

On the fence

The author made some good points... but overall the book kept repeating itself and seemed like a pitch for socialism. In a nutshell we shouldn’t work very hard, ride bikes, and everything should be free.