The Happiness Purpose

By Edward de Bono

Book Overview

First published in 1977, in this extraordinarily prescient book Edward de Bono sets out his method for achieving the ultimate 21st century goal: work-life balance. Defined in terms of life-space and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140137866
• ISBN13: 9780140137866
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.0" x 1.0" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

Practical and deep

One of the most influential books that I read when I was in my early twenties. Found it to be as useful and enlightening as I'm OK You're OK. I think I'm a different and better person today because of it. Concepts such as Cope Space and Demand Space and how their ratio influence your happiness, were clearly and simply explained. Also includes straightforward practical advice. Such as being sensitive doesn't mean having to act upon it - you can notice things but you can choose to shrug them off. I've found myself reasoning out some behaviour - hey, I should see this situation this way and react this way - and then reread the book and realised that the idea was from the book. This book is a keeper. Something to reread every five or ten years.

Life is based on one thing - the happiness purpose

Using the foundations developed in his many penetrating books on the mechanisms and functions of mind (eg "lateral thinking")De Bono explores the central driving force of human conscious endevour - the pursuit of happiness. Some of the key concepts developed are exciting to say the least.