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Thrive: Finding Happiness the Blue Zones Way by [Dan Buettner]

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What makes us happy? It's not wealth, youth, beauty, or intelligence, says Dan Buettner. In fact, most of us have the keys within our grasp. Circling the globe to study the world's happiest populations, Buettner has spotted several common principles that can unlock the doors to true contentment with our lives.

Working with leading researchers, Buettner identifies the happiest region on each of four continents. He explores why these populations say they are happier than anyone else, and what they can teach the rest of us about finding contentment. His conclusions debunk some commonly believed myths: Are people who have children happier than those who don't? Not necessarily—in Western societies, parenthood actually makes the happiness level drop. Is gender equality a factor? Are the world's happiest places to be found on tropical islands with beautiful beaches? You may be surprised at what Buettner's research indicates.

Unraveling the story of each "hotspot" like a good mystery, Buettner reveals how he discovered each location and then travels to meet folks who embody each particular brand of happiness. He introduces content, thriving people in Denmark, in Singapore, in northeastern Mexico, and in a composite "happiest place in America." In addition, he interviews economists, psychologists, sociologists, politicians, writers, and other experts to get at what contributes to each region's happiness, from the Danish concept of hygge, which translates to creating a feeling of coziness, to the Mexican love of a good joke.

Buettner's findings result in a credible, cross-cultural formula and a practical plan to help us stack the deck for happiness and get more satisfaction out of life. According to Buettner's advisory team, the average person can control about forty percent of his or her individual happiness by optimizing life choices. These aren't unreasonable demands on a person's lifestyle, and they often require only slight changes. They fall into three categories tha

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Nordea Bank in downtown Copenhagen, Denmark, is one of Europe’s largest banks. The owners believe that a well-lit, well-designed workspace makes for a more efficient and profitable workforce. Its corporate headquarters and philosophy are typical of most large Danish companies. Photo by David McLain The Rabbit Jumping Association in Arhus, Denmark, is 30 members strong and partially funded by the municipality. Approximately 96% of Danes belong to a vast array of associations that have served to institutionalize social networking and reinforce a sense of community and belonging. Photo by David McLain A government-sponsored outing for young couples called “Movies on the Beach” is designed to promote love. In Singapore, the government plays a heavy-handed role in social policy, promoting everything from love to cleanliness in a seemingly endless array of social education campaigns. Photo by David McLain Approximately 80% of Singaporeans live in public housing and approximately 90% own their own home, giving Singapore one of the highest rates of home ownership anywhere on Earth. Photo by David McLain Making room for bikes is the only way to go in San Luis Obispo, Calif., a town that prides itself in making recreation and social interaction easier. Newer establishments often have a bike valet service. Photo by Dan Buettner

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“…a book about the happiest regions in the world. [Buettner] also recommends “land-mining your home with photos and memorabilia, so you’re constantly reminded of your history.” Adorning a hallway or a highly trafficked room with sentimental objects is a good way to start.”
–Real Simple

“Buettner travels to places…to interview “thrivers,” who report more life enjoyment than most people. He suggests ways that the reader can emulate these cheery folks.”
–Atlanta Journal Constitution

“For his 2008 best-seller, The Blue Zones , Dan Buettner searched the world for the truth about longevity. In his new book, Thrive, out Oct. 19, he tackles the topic of happiness. What are the happiest spots on Earth—and what secrets can we glean from them?” –Parade --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ National Geographic; Illustrated edition (October 19, 2010)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 19, 2010
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1195 KB
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Dan Buettner is an explorer, National Geographic Fellow, award-winning journalist and producer, and New York Times bestselling author. He discovered the five places in the world – dubbed blue zones hotspots – where people live the longest, healthiest lives. His articles about these places in The New York Times Magazine and National Geographic are two of the most popular for both publications.

Buettner now works in partnership with municipal governments, large employers, and health insurance companies to implement Blue Zones Projects in communities, workplaces, and universities. Blue Zones Projects are well-being initiatives that apply lessons from the Blue Zones to entire communities by focusing on changes to the local environment, public policy, and social networks. The program has dramatically improved the health of more than 5 million Americans to date.

His new book “The Blue Zones Challenge: A 4-Week Plan for a Longer Better Life” is a four-week guide and year-long sustainability program to jump-start your journey to better health, happiness, less stress, and longer life.

Buettner also holds three Guinness World Records in distance cycling.

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Bruce Alan Wehler

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The author takes a researched-based approach to constructing a fulfilling life. The key question is not about living longer but living better. The ideas and suggestions offered are sensible, workable, actionable, and measurable. You will find that you are already engaged in many of activities and processes discussed in the book, but you will gain many insights into building a bigger and better life for yourself. This book will change your life.

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Jeffrey Penn May

Forced Into Book Length Happiness

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Thrive: Finding Happiness the Blue Zones Way by Dan Buettner is an "interesting" read, but lacks the narrative drive and cohesiveness that I tend to look for in nonfiction regardless of topic. I haven't read his first book, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer, so I may have been at a disadvantage; that is, not knowing what to expect. A "blue zone" is a place (demographic or geographic) where people live measurably longer lives.

I found the book oddly formatted, seemingly designed to maximize page length. For example, the "leading experts" are listed in chapter one, then questions about happiness are asked of each expert. As you might expect, you get some repetition, and since these experts are not writers, you get some fairly banal answers. "The word `happiness' means many things." That's not to say that some of their responses aren't interesting, just that the answers should have been heavily edited and weaved into the narrative, which consists of four separate travelogues in search of happiness.

The travelogue chapters, about 170 pages, are entertaining and worth reading, carrying the reader to four unexpectedly happy places - despite the often repetitious "lessons" at the end of each chapter, and the page-hogging big-font random facts at the bottom of pages. Chapter six "Lessons in Thriving" echoes the previous lessons, but isn't too bad as a sort of checklist for choosing a place to live. A "Special Bonus Chapter" is tacked on, a 25-page excerpt from The Blue Zones.

Three stars. Worth reading, but could have easily been a slim volume about four special happy blue zone places.

Jeffrey Penn May, Author of Where the River Splits, Cynthia and the Blue Cat's Last Meow, and more.

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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 22, 2010

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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.

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Ash

Good read. I enjoyed the book but still think there is some untold stories.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 15, 2017

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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.

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Laurie

Arrived on time in great condition.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 20, 2019

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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!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 12, 2012

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travel with dan buettner to visit the happiest people on our planet the geographical locations surprised me but not the criteria for this sometimes elusive state of being an interesting informative read for anyone looking for a sense of well being
peace of mind and a sense that much is right with our world meet people not so different from yourself in a variety of cultures
with enough things in common to identify happiness as attainable for you right where you are

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firecrackerxc

Great book!

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I read this book for a recreation class. I liked it so much that I recommended it to a friend and she's reading it now. Great book!

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Tricia Z.

Very positive and inspirational!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 21, 2014

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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.

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L. J. Bailey

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 27, 2022

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Great price. I got on offer but I must admit I thought it would have recipes and more about food in it. It doesn’t but it’s an interesting read

Rune V

Unnecessarily long

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on September 24, 2014

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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.

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Karen

Good interesting read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 7, 2011

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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.

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Mo

You wont be disappointed

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 29, 2013

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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.

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