The Airbus A330-300 is the aircraft model that flies most regularly on the Taipei City to Fukuoka flight route. Pleasure is a false god. Research shows that people who focus their energy on superficial pleasures end up more anxious, more emotionally unstable, and more depressed. Pleasure is the most superficial form of life satisfaction and therefore the easiest to obtain and the easiest to lose.” Our culture today is obsessively focused on unrealistically positive expectations: Be happier. Be healthier. Be the best, better than the rest. Be smarter, faster, richer, sexier, more popular, more productive, more envied, and more admired. Be perfect and amazing and crap out twelve-karat-gold nuggets before breakfast each morning while kissing your selfie-ready spouse and two and a half kids goodbye. Then fly your helicopter to your wonderfully fulfilling job, where you spend your days doing incredibly meaningful work that’s likely to save the planet one day.

Better believe in Online-Dating, because the famous University of Stanford has shown proof that it works. How do you write a tons of books? Write “200 crappy words per day” and you’ll find motivation often flows out of you. Life will not give you a happy ending. Period. Endings are always sad. And we need to get over this ridiculous idea that at some point we'll get to sigh a big sigh of relief because our fairytale Happily Ever After has arrived. We don’t always control what happens to us. But we always control how we interpret what happens to us, as well as how we respond.Here are the bestselling books in Canada of 2017". CBC.ca. December 27, 2017 . Retrieved February 19, 2018.

The author references some information from scientific studies with an assumption that the results are one way or another. He doesn't say "studies suggest that..." or "recent research has shown..", he states matter of factly that this research is correct. This may perhaps be a small complaint, but as a scientist myself, something that bothered me all the same. The case studies of famous people, too, though interesting seem to be more assumption than fact. Couldn't be happier to have chosen audio rather than ebook. Cursing can seem very aggressive when reading it on text, but hearing it through the voice of the narrator it became so much easier, and funnier. The more you embrace being uncertain and not knowing, the more comfortable you will feel in knowing what you don’t know. Just like with a Gladwell book, I think one should read this book carefully, especially if the reader is new to self-help/ philosophy genres. If you're already familiar with some good/ logical philosophy books, chances are, you'll take everything in this with a grain of salt, and only extract what's helpful. However, when a non-fiction book gets this much popularity, this could even become the very first self-help book one reads. And that's a dangerous thing, to start along with a system that accepts 'expecting the negative to happen to be a positive thing'. As the experiences/ examples presented are clear, and very easy to relate to, it's easy to get completely lost in a philosophy like this. I still decided to share some (obvious) wisdom quotes, but I hope you won't be tempted to read this one because of them. On the contrary, I'm only reviewing this one to warn any future readers, especially if you're new to self-help or non-fiction books.Self-improvement and success often occur together. But that doesn’t necessarily mean they’re the same thing. This is one of the first books where the author was bold enough to discuss the toxic positivity spread by self-help books and self-help gurus. It will help those trapped in the vicious cycle of toxic positivity. In this way, “knowing yourself” or “finding yourself” can be dangerous. It can cement you into a strict role and saddle you with unnecessary expectations. It can close you off to inner potential and outer opportunities.