50 Faces of Happy: Work . Money . Life . Purpose

50 Faces of Happy: Work . Money . Life . Purpose
ISBN-10
0997369655
ISBN-13
9780997369656
Category
Happiness
Pages
159
Language
English
Published
2019-10-15
Author
Banwari Mittal

Description

A social scientist and professor set out on a road journey across the USA and Canada to discover what happiness meant to people. He conducted 500+ interviews with people he met at random, asking them Five Big Questions-questions about work, money, life, purpose, and happiness. The book showcases 50 of these interviews from 50 cities-from California to New York and from Florida to Minneapolis. Some answers echo our own, of course; some offer worldviews that will amaze and inspire us. This is not a typical self-help book. By design, the book avoids any prescriptions, theory, survey findings, summary of received wisdom, or an action-step guide. Instead it is a collection of short narratives, supplying illustration and ingredients to craft our own answers to the Five Questions. You may have answered these questions already. Wouldn't you now like to know how other people have answered those questions? People just like you. And people different from you. Engineers, doctors, pilots, factory workers, CEOs, managers, merchants, millennials, artists, professors, students, celebrated authors, accountant-turned-yoga-instructors, abuse victims, home-free nomads-they all tell us why they live. Put together, this rare collection of "answers" nudge us to revisit our own answers and contemplate human happiness up close and personal. A Work Sheet included in the book invites you to update your answers every year. This much is certain: Unless we answer for ourselves the questions asked in this book, and answer them wisely, we will have not explored the deeper layers of happiness. In 4-color on glossy paper in a coffee table book format, with 50 photos and breezy prose, the book is designed to be pleasing to hold, view, and share. (9.5x7.5x.75" 160 pages). Sample answer: I now realize that there is a bigger purpose for the moments God places in front of me. In what I do in those moments-in every moment facing me-there is for me an opportunity to enhance people's lives and bring value to people I meet. (Eric Tran, General Manager, a car dealership, Florida.

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