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Language and the Pursuit of Happiness
- A New Foundation for Designing Your Life, Your Relationships and Your Results
- Narrated by: Chalmers Brothers
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
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What if one of the most powerful avenues to achieving a balance of peacefulness and productivity - defined here as happiness - is so close that you may have missed it? What if, by taking a new look here, you can open truly unprecedented possibilities for yourself, your effectiveness, your relationships, as well as your emotional and physical well-being? And what if an incredible variety of your experiences and results - personally and professionally - have for years been connected to this, whether you've been aware of it or not?
This is the promise of this compelling book by veteran consultant, certified personal coach, and seminar leader Chalmers Brothers: a new way of understanding language provides a powerful new foundation and a new set of tools for designing and re-designing your life, at home and at work, and everywhere in between. This is especially relevant for everyone seeking meaningful change in their lives, as well as those for whom building and maintaining mutually-beneficial relationships is important. And it's particularly useful for leaders, managers, salespeople and anyone else who "gets paid to have effective conversations"!
Having nothing to do with grammar, sentence structure or nouns and verbs, this book instead takes you on a journey through the many ways in which your internal and external conversations - fully entwined and braided together with your moods, emotions and physical body - are incredibly active, creative and generative (vs. merely passive and descriptive).
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- Adrian Panghe
- 14-03-24
Promises not kept, are not unmet expectations.
- Happiness is when we're both peaceful and productive.
- Everything starts with me.
- You cannot change someone else. Only open their eyes.
- We are linguistic beings. We live in language. (Like fish in water, and we only notice when we’re out…)
- An explanation (or an excuse) is the story we make up, we say it's true, and we forget it was invented.
- Our whole financial system is based on words: on promises.
- Language is not only for communication. Language is creative and generative. We make things happen through language.
- Without time and practice, learning does not occur.
- The first enemy of learning is our inability to say “I don't know”.
- We need to be more competent in observing the observer we are.
- Moods and emotions are predispositions for actions.
- “I don't know” it's a declaration of learning.
- The right conversation with the wrong mood is the wrong conversation.
- Assumptions are questions not asked.
- It might be impossible to keep 100% of the promises we make, but we can manage 100% of them.
- Promises not kept, are not unmet expectations.
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- CC
- 27-12-20
Good content - but maybe too much
This book has a lot of great information and wisdom in it. For me, though, there was too much. It’s worth reading - definitely - but it will take a bit of work to digest.
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