Thrive: Finding Happiness the Blue Zones Way Kindle Edition

Good book on essentials of happiness at social level. Lots of good points and advice on what could be related to happiness at social and personal level. The reason, I gave it 3 star was that the book does not delve into the source of happiness and just scratch the surface. The base is the world survey of happiness and the attributes of that place is being magnified to reach to conclusion. I think the difference in each country percent on well-being survey should be the holly grail for determining happy people. There are happy people every where and a country with 40% happy population may have different attributes of happiness compared to the attributes of happiness of another country with 45% of happy population. But we simply delete that group because their country did not score high enough. However, happy people are happy at different countries with different attributes and we simply miss those in this book. May be the attributes of happy people at different place is a better selection criteria for this kind of research.Regardless, I enjoyed reading the book and made a few pages note that reminded me of good quotes. I appreciate the author’s effort.

Living in one of the "happiest places" I was very curious about what the author had to say about Monterrey, MX, so I read a summary before buying the book. The list of the things that supposedly make people happy were all true and made sense (in my personal experience of 25 years living here). But when reading the book I was very disappointed to discover that the research behind it was very vague and poorly based. A lot of the experiences, people and places mentioned in the book are not at all representative of Monterrey or are not the most appropriate ones to mention. This issue made me strongly question the accuracy of what is said about the rest of the places mentioned in the book.If I hadn't known one of this places so well I would have probably enjoyed the book a lot, but I really think that the author's experience is very misleading.

One book on these groups of "happy" people is more than enough. A lot of repetitive information to fill up the pages. Printing is faded in places and too light to be able to read. Book smelled faintly "musty".

I have followed Dan Buettner's work closely since I first met him at an event where he spoke inspirationally about his travels by bicycle around the world. A lot of travelers collect places like trophies and then move on. Not dan Buettner. He looks and listens closely while he is there and long after he's gone the sights and sounds play in his understanding like essential pieces in the puzzle that is life on Earth. He holds them, turns them, figures them out and then in his insightful, readable and companionable books his puts the pieces together to create pictures of the most meaningful elements of human existence. In Blue Zones it was life itself, and in the fascinating, brave new volume Thrive it is happiness in our lives. There are many counter-intuitive, and perhaps hard to hear lessons on what makes places happy. Often happiness collides with our idealistic views of ourselves, often our happiness is not the kind that economists have easy times with and, most often, happiness makes us thrive in ways we may not have understand until DB offers us the mirror. This is a global book at what makes people flourish. It is about us and what we do for each other. It is humane. It is essential. It is about beauty. I find myself rereading it, citing it and being inspired by it.

I needed this book for a class. I don't like spending a lot of money on books I may not use again. This book is exactly what I needed - used, a good price and arrive in the condition described. Would recommend!

Wonderful Read! Very informative, about long living throughout the world, even the U.S. has a zone or two to be explored! What I found most interesting was that the culture of the peoples in out of the way places Worldwide had one specific thing in common to their Longevity! Religious belief! This is one of the best books I've ever read, in recent yrs., Dan Buettner, has outdone himself on this one!

I love this book! I love his ted talk. As a positive psychology educator and psychotherapist, I highly recommend Thrive. Read Thrive learn about what the research shows truly makes us happier, what nations, and regions around the world have learned and put into practice in their lives to live longer and live fulfilling lives. Spoiler: other people matter, as Chris Peterson famously put it. There's more to it of course but take away that people matter and you will live a happier, healthier life.

This book was part of our book club at work. My employer works with communities our state teaching them the Blue Zones ways for better living. I found it to be a very slow read at the beginning, however it is very inspiration. I highly recommend reading this if you are looking for a book to lift your spirits, help you think more positively and to learn more about the Blue Zones.

The book is well-written and an easy read with a decent portion of humor too. While the topic is interesting enough I don't see why the author needs almost 300 pages to reach his conclusions, especially considering the lack of quantitative data in the book. And his conclusions are absolutely what you would expect before reading the book. If you, before you read the book, sit down and make a list of general variables you believe make people happy there's a really good chance that all of those things will also be mentioned in the book.Buettner's book also has a few critical methodological deficiencies if you ask me. The main part of the book consists of interviews with a few people in countries high on the global happiness rankings. The author presents some of the arguments given by these individuals as generally true about the entire population of the country in questions. For example, one of the interviewees in Denmark claims that he doesn't mind paying 50%+ taxes and Buettner then moves on to conclude that Danes are happy tax payers. Being a Dane myself I can tell you that the vast majority of people here hate paying taxes because they believe the product they are getting in return is inferior.If you're looking for a light read without the heavy stats and analyses of proper research then this is a good choice but there won't be any ground-breaking conclusions waiting for you.

Very easy to read, interesting, and makes you want to go and visit other places round the globe. Lots of background knowledge about the different countries and their cultural heritage. He deals with one country per chapter and summarizes the main points and at the end of the book suggests things we can all do to make our own lives a bit happier. (although having glanced at them they seem quite obvious!) Good book and would recommend it to others.

A really fascinating read.I thought it would be about the same groups of people he wrote about in his book Blue Zones but it was about different groups which made it much more interesting.It also gave me ideas on how I could thrive more in my own life.

Dad loved this and has added it to his collection.

Bought for my husband. I asked him to say a sentence about it, he said "it was uplifting and its a book you want to finish" ..