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18th September 2013

Is Happiness a Deliberate State of Mind?

The Happiness Podcast Episode 1: Is Happiness a Deliberate State of Mind? listen to ‘Is Happiness a deliberate state of mind? ’ on Audioboo Is happiness a choice? Is it a deliberate state of mind or a mere circumstance? Can we be deliberately happy? Can we be fundamentally happy despite finding ourselves in horrific, […]

Some books I've read

Eat, Pray, Love

by Elizabeth Gilbert

This book was recommended to me by a friend, given my interest in all things 'happiness'. I hadn't seen the film - and I must say, it's odd: at no point in the book could I picture Elizabeth as Julia Roberts! It too me a very long tim...

Tell Me Why, Mummy: A Little Boy’s Struggle to Survive. A Mother’s Shameful Secret. The Power to Forgive.

by David Thomas

Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal

by Nick Bilton

Wow! What an enthralling read! I was expecting to love this book because I am a bit of a social media geek, but this is truly a book that anyone who loves books about power struggles, corporate intrigue, friendships and betrayal will ab...

Man's Search for Meaning

by Viktor E. Frankl

This is a must-read book! It's not very long and you can read it again and again very quickly to give yourself regular reminders of what's important in life. Viktor Frankl managed to apply his scientific mind to study the psychology...

No Way Back

by Andrew Gross

Having read previous Andrew Gross / James Patterson collaborations, I was expecting this book to be a page-turner, but I actually found it to be far better than I expected! Starting with the excellent and very clever bit of marketing: I ...

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