Title: How to make good things happen to you: Know your brain, enhance your life
Author: Marian Rojas Estape
Narrator: Valeria Arribas
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Genre: Nonfiction, Psychology, Personal development
First Published: October 9, 2018
Book description: For those in pursuit of a better life, psychiatrist Marian Rojas Estapé presents the essential guide to neuroscience-driven mindfulness. Understanding your brain, managing your emotions, and being aware of your responses to stressors can give you greater self-control. Rather than a gimmicky guidebook, this is a thorough look at how our brains react to stress, threats, hyperstimulation, and the vices of our digital age. With proven techniques backed by solid, up-to-date psychiatric research, Estapé teaches us how to make the best of our lives.
Combining science, psychology, and philosophy, Estapé delivers practical advice about how we can cultivate a happy existence. This includes understanding the parts of the brain, setting healthy goals and objectives, strengthening willpower, cultivating emotional intelligence, developing assertiveness, avoiding excessive self-criticism and self-demand, and mastering the proven art of optimism.
Review:
This is not exactly what I have come to expect for self-help books, and I love it! It is a book that explains how emotions work and influence our body from a psychological and scientific point of view, well documented. It also gives simple advice to apply in our lives and learn to relativize and control emotions, not to be excessively hard on ourselves and what happens to us and to move through life with assertiveness and optimism. It is a very interesting book and quick to read.
The most amazing massage you can get, not exactly the first time I read it but it was given in such a great way:
It's important to focus on the present and not spend too much time dwelling on the past or worrying about the future. Life is short, so we should make the most of every moment and not let negative experiences hold us back. Instead, we can learn from our past mistakes and use them to guide our actions in the present. Similarly, we can plan for the future, but we shouldn't let our worries about it consume us. By living in the moment and being mindful of our actions, we can find happiness and fulfillment in our lives.
My one regret is that I listened to it as audiobook. But I will look for getting my hands on a physical copy so I can reread and annotate it.
The main ideas I kept from this were:
You have to live in the present without wasting too much time suffering for the past or the future.
The importance of relativizing and not letting external people or things affect us.
We must learn to forgive, to feel love and compassion so as not to live tied to guilt, fear, resentment or sadness.
The importance of having a meaning in life or beliefs and values.
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Books in Spanish
Around the World: Spain
This book is in English version so far I found it on Kindle, I don't think there is an audio version yet.
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