Happier: How Gratitude, Appreciation and Kindness can Transform Your World by Andy LacroixMy rating: 2 of 5 stars
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This book is full of oversimplifications and sweeping generalizations. It is an incredibly superficial treatment of the subject, and is incredibly vapid. There is little substance to this book. There are some vague references to "scientific studies", that are meant to support the message the author is trying to put across. The text is repetitive, and the definitions of the key words presented by the author are incorrect; they're not the dictionary definitions, they are some singular interpretation of the author's.
I did find the idea of exercising gratitude, "appreciation", and kindness, as though it could be something a person can get better at with practice. He did also put forth a "30-day Challenge", which I thought was interesting as well, to practice the above every day and record it in a journal.
However, I wouldn't recommend this book, I wouldn't read it again, and other, better books have been written on the subject.
