There are many books written but not all type of books are for everyone, the book which I am going to review is the book which is based on search. I like such type of books because these books are based on research and data.
I am sure if you are born in 80's you might have heard this statement many couple of times "If you get good grades in school you will be get game console and once you get the game console you will be happy" or "If you get admission in good college then you will get good job in big firm and you will be happy" or "If you do well in your job you will get promotion and you will be happy" and so on and so forth.

So to summarize the equation would be :

Work + Success = Happiness

The normal pattern is "If you << Some work >> after that << if you have success >> and at final you will be HAPPY", so its like Disney tag line "HAPPILY EVER AFTER" statement.

So that means happiness is always other side and no matter whatever you do its always remains on other side, because first part is a job and other is conditional and so do the result becomes conditional.

But after surfing through YouTube videos I stumbled upon following video :

Video is very interesting, isn't it!

So in his book researcher Shawn Achor is challenging above equation. As per him he is looking the equation other way round and he is calling this equation "Happiness Advantage" which is also his book name.

As per him the equation is as follow:

Work + Happiness = Success

As per him there is flaw in previous equation where Happiness is result of your work and success, but what if success is the result of happiness and work. I felt this equation a very interesting and that made to enrol myself to this book.

Book is full of research and data points where he has pointed out so many success story and experiments have been done and all it turns out to follow same pattern i.e. success is the outcome of work + happiness. In his book he has proved again and again that if you are happy and do your job, there are more chances to be successful in all part of your life irrespective of your age gender.

The book is divided into 3 parts where first part is about positivity and showing the example from all shorts of life from small kids to elder people how happiness advantage equation played crucial role and how so many people have used this to there advantage.

While in second part researcher have stated 7 practical principle on how can we implement those and can use in our day to day life. Principles he has stated are as follow:

  1. Happiness Advantage
  2. Fulcrum and Lever
  3. Tetris Effect
  4. Falling Up
  5. Zorro Circle
  6. 20 Second Rule
  7. Social Investment

To know about each principles you have to read or hear the book 😄.

And the final part is about Ripple Effect where he is talking about spreading your experience. "As the Bhagavad Gita wisely teaches, what you give to the world is what you will receive in return". So if you spread happiness and joy in to the world you will also get the same.

Overall this is a good book with lots of example and huge amount of practical experience and steps that we can follow in our life to be successful. I would rate this book 3.5 ⭐ dues to the fact in some of the topic writer has given so many example that it gets hard to be engaged with the topic and I feel this is due to the fact he is a good researcher.

You can buy book from 👉 The Happiness Advantage and audible

I hope this blog has helped you and gave some knowledge. I really appreciate for taking the time out, Thank you so much.

I am looking for some business / finance book to read if you know any and would like to review please drop the comment below 👇