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Dear Reader,
I invite you to sample a special book this week, Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert. It was the book I took with me on vacation and after I finished reading it, I even went back and thumbed through it a second time.
You can sample the book, and of course I'm giving away free copies, but the excerpt starts at Chapter One, and the first couple of paragraphs of Daniel's FORWARD shouldn't be missed.
From the FORWARD:
"What would you do right now if you learned that you were going to die in ten minutes? Would you race upstairs and light that Marlboro you've been hiding in your sock drawer since the Ford administration? Would you waltz into your boss's office and present him with a detailed description of his personal defects? Would you drive out to that steakhouse near the new mall and order a T-bone, medium rare, with an extra side of the really 'bad' cholesterol?
Hard to say, of course, but of all the things you might do in your final ten minutes, it's a pretty safe bet that few of them are things you actually did today.
Now, some people will bemoan this fact, wag their fingers in your direction, and tell you sternly that you should live every minute of your life as though it were your last, which only goes to show that some people would spend their final ten minutes giving other people dumb advice."
Oh, yes, Daniel's a Harvard College Professor of Psychology, but he doesn't write like one. (That's a compliment Daniel!)
So, do you think you know what makes you happy? Start reading and find out. Read the sample, send me an email telling me what you think (I'll forward your comments on to the professor) and you're entered in the book drawing. Go to:
http://www.supportlibrary.com/nl/path_go.cfm?x=805&site=13
Thanks for reading with me. It's so good to read with friends.
Suzanne Beecher
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http://www.DearReader.com
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