Summary of The Five Thieves of Happiness
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Leadership trainer John Izzo explains that joy and happiness are natural aspects of every human being. During an eight-month sabbatical spent walking the Camino de Santiago in Spain and living in the Andes of Peru, he identified the five elements – which he calls the “five thieves” – that prevent people from being happy. The challenge, he says, is to remove the mental barriers that prevent you from accessing your happiness and living a fulfilling life. In this gem of a self-help book, Izzo skillfully constructs a watertight case that happiness exists inside each person: You don’t have to acquire it – just dust it off and put into effect. getAbstract believes his optimistic, accessible outlook may challenge your thinking and lift up your attitude.
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Author of The Five Secrets You Must Discover Before You Die and five other books, John Izzo, PhD, has spoken to more than one million people worldwide at conferences and corporate events.
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7 months agoVery nice & valuable points included- Thank You
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2 years agoGreat, very educative
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2 years agoVery insightful and some great takeaways - beware of comfort !!
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3 years agoDefinitely worth the read!
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3 years agogreat
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3 years ago'Happy' reading!
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3 years agovery interesting theory one might have been practicing parts of it without consciousness. very interesting read and good summary, wish one of the facebook short videos makes it into one short video to share it to the world. the new world of social networking even for knowledge.
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3 years agoGood work
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3 years agoIt is all about awareness. Being aware is the first and foremost necessity to embark on a journey into a more fulfilling and happier life indeed. Whether you call them thiefs or limiting belief or wrong focus, in the end, the important thing is to know your current wrong doing or challenge in order to be able to tackle and correct it. And I can agree with the author, that true happiness can only start from within (the mind) and by recognizing your current state.
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3 years agoWow. So insightful and so true. Love the bland the thought to challenge everything people and social media want us to believe with regard to happiness . Thanks for this review!
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3 years agoAshish, I really like your argument, but still feel that the author has given us a good first direction to a better society although I somehow agree that we as human beings find also happiness in having friends and family so being too egocentric is not the way.
Saying so, I also believe that you as individual need to have a certain degree of “self happiness” to share it with your environment. -
3 years ago"True happiness doesn’t hinge on events or life circumstances. It lies within", I disagree with the author's basic premise of the book. If everyone was to become content with whatever life is dishing at you and/ or become oblivious to our fellow beings' plight, then what kind of society would that be?
One could argue that the 'thieves of happiness' are not essentially thieves, but your conscience asking you to recognize the problem at hand and do something to make things better, and by showing them the door, one is becoming increasingly inhumane; and that is not the kind of happiness anyone should be striving for/ arrive at. -
3 years agoThis summary reminded me once again that the Asian society I am currently living in pushes us towards control and coveting in order to improve oneself within a highly competitive environment. I got jealous ^^ about spending 8 months walking the Camino de Santiago and the Andes like the author. Thank you for reminding me about accepting the happenings.
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3 years agoNew interesting point of views.
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2 years agoYes i’m agree??
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2 years agoYes i’m agree??
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3 years agoSahay Provides new insights and steers to acceptance and acknowledgement of the situations that we encounter.
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3 years agoIts clears a lots of glaring thoughts in me
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3 years agoI found this Abstract to be very enlightening and interesting. I liked it so much I shared it during my weekly team meeting. Lots of good stuff in here!
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3 years agoPretty interesting though I expected less but very satisfied that the material exceeded all my expectations thanks for the cognitive life lesson
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3 years agoTake responsibility and become a leader
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3 years agoFantastic !
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3 years agocool!
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3 years agoTruly inspiring
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3 years agoExcellent read
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3 years agoGreat talk.
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3 years agoaweson
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4 years agoGood self awareness
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4 years agonice
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4 years agoFrom time to time it is needed to remind yourself to be more happy! Smart abstract to get a first idea ...
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4 years agoLove this. I'd say is not necessary do two out of the three steps described to banish the thieves. If you do #1 - Notice, the system takes care of the rest. Simply noticing makes an unhappy thought disappear or change.
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4 years agoI enjoyed this.
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4 years agoA short, digestible and easy-to-remember snippet about happiness. Some tangible and actionable take-sways too.
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4 years agoEnlightening. Opens the mind and makes one more aware of destructive thoughts and feelings.
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4 years agoInteresting
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4 years agoCoveting there is not the word
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4 years agogood
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4 years agoTrueee
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4 years agoInteresting
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4 years agoNice