Listen free for 30 days
-
Happier
- Learn the Secrets to Daily Joy and Lasting Fulfillment
- Narrated by: Jeff Woodman
- Length: 4 hrs and 6 mins
- Categories: Health & Wellness, Psychology & Mental Health
People who bought this also bought...
-
Pursuit of Perfect
- How to Stop Chasing and Start Living a Richer, Happier Life
- By: Tal Ben-Shahar
- Narrated by: Eric Conger
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Applying cutting-edge research in the field of positive psychology - the scientific principles taught in his wildly popular course at Harvard University - Ben-Shahar takes us off the impossible pursuit of perfection and directs us to the way to happiness, richness, and true fulfillment. He shows us the freedom derived from not trying to do it all right all the time and the real lessons that failure and painful emotions can teach us.
-
-
Revealing. Brilliant.
- By A86 on 14-01-17
-
Choose the Life You Want
- 101 Ways to Create Your Own Road to Happiness
- By: Tal Ben-Shahar
- Narrated by: Traber Burns
- Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
We have more choices than we realize. In fact, according to positive psychology expert Tal Ben-Shahar, our entire life is made of choices, large and small. It is what we choose moment by moment and day by day - to do, to feel, to experience - that determines how happy and fulfilled we are. Every moment, then, is an opportunity to make a choice that will bring us greater happiness. Ben- Shahar presents 100 such opportunities, some simple, such as whether to frown or smile; others complex....
-
-
Informative and Educational
- By Lyn C on 07-04-13
-
Short Cuts to Happiness
- By: Tal Ben-Shahar
- Narrated by: Neil Shah
- Length: 2 hrs
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In his trailblazing Harvard courses, internationally best-selling books, and lectures and videos, positive psychologist Tal Ben-Shahar has shared his essential, scientifically backed tools for finding fulfillment the world over. But even the happiness expert needs a boost from time to time! Tal found his not in a guru or fellow psychologist but rather in his longtime neighbourhood barber, Avi - a man with a gift for making his clients look and feel great with wisdom beyond his years. Tal's visits to Avi soon grew into a friendship deeper than most.
-
Learned Optimism
- How to Change Your Mind and Your Life
- By: Martin E. P. Seligman Ph.D.
- Narrated by: Martin E. P. Seligman Ph.D.
- Length: 1 hr and 23 mins
- Abridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Psychologist Martin E.P. Seligman, one of the world's experts on motivation, shows you how to chart a new approach to living with "flexible optimism." Dr. Seligman's principles of reasoned, flexible optimism will help you rise above pessimism and the depression that accompanies negative thoughts.
-
-
This is scam. Original books it much longer.
- By Nikita Shilenok on 29-07-17
-
Good to Great
- By: Jim Collins
- Narrated by: Jim Collins
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
After a five-year research project, Jim Collins concludes that good to great can and does happen. In this audiobook, he uncovers the underlying variables that enable any type of organisation to make the leap from good to great while other organisations remain only good. Rigorously supported by evidence, his findings are surprising - at times even shocking - to the modern mind. Good to Great achieves a rare distinction: a management book full of vital ideas that reads as well as a fast-paced novel.
-
-
Awesome book really enjoyed it 🙌🙌
- By Jon on 17-12-20
-
The Diet Myth
- The Real Science Behind What We Eat
- By: Tim Spector
- Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
- Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Why do most diets fail? Why does one person eat a certain meal and gain weight, while another eating the same meal loses pounds? Why, despite all the advice about what to eat, are we all still getting fatter? The answers are much more surprising - and fascinating - than we've been led to believe. The key to health and weight loss lies not in the latest fad diet, nor even in the simple mantra of 'eat less, exercise more', but in the microbes already inside us.
-
-
Finally
- By David Jackson on 04-02-16
-
Pursuit of Perfect
- How to Stop Chasing and Start Living a Richer, Happier Life
- By: Tal Ben-Shahar
- Narrated by: Eric Conger
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Applying cutting-edge research in the field of positive psychology - the scientific principles taught in his wildly popular course at Harvard University - Ben-Shahar takes us off the impossible pursuit of perfection and directs us to the way to happiness, richness, and true fulfillment. He shows us the freedom derived from not trying to do it all right all the time and the real lessons that failure and painful emotions can teach us.
-
-
Revealing. Brilliant.
- By A86 on 14-01-17
-
Choose the Life You Want
- 101 Ways to Create Your Own Road to Happiness
- By: Tal Ben-Shahar
- Narrated by: Traber Burns
- Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
We have more choices than we realize. In fact, according to positive psychology expert Tal Ben-Shahar, our entire life is made of choices, large and small. It is what we choose moment by moment and day by day - to do, to feel, to experience - that determines how happy and fulfilled we are. Every moment, then, is an opportunity to make a choice that will bring us greater happiness. Ben- Shahar presents 100 such opportunities, some simple, such as whether to frown or smile; others complex....
-
-
Informative and Educational
- By Lyn C on 07-04-13
-
Short Cuts to Happiness
- By: Tal Ben-Shahar
- Narrated by: Neil Shah
- Length: 2 hrs
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In his trailblazing Harvard courses, internationally best-selling books, and lectures and videos, positive psychologist Tal Ben-Shahar has shared his essential, scientifically backed tools for finding fulfillment the world over. But even the happiness expert needs a boost from time to time! Tal found his not in a guru or fellow psychologist but rather in his longtime neighbourhood barber, Avi - a man with a gift for making his clients look and feel great with wisdom beyond his years. Tal's visits to Avi soon grew into a friendship deeper than most.
-
Learned Optimism
- How to Change Your Mind and Your Life
- By: Martin E. P. Seligman Ph.D.
- Narrated by: Martin E. P. Seligman Ph.D.
- Length: 1 hr and 23 mins
- Abridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Psychologist Martin E.P. Seligman, one of the world's experts on motivation, shows you how to chart a new approach to living with "flexible optimism." Dr. Seligman's principles of reasoned, flexible optimism will help you rise above pessimism and the depression that accompanies negative thoughts.
-
-
This is scam. Original books it much longer.
- By Nikita Shilenok on 29-07-17
-
Good to Great
- By: Jim Collins
- Narrated by: Jim Collins
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
After a five-year research project, Jim Collins concludes that good to great can and does happen. In this audiobook, he uncovers the underlying variables that enable any type of organisation to make the leap from good to great while other organisations remain only good. Rigorously supported by evidence, his findings are surprising - at times even shocking - to the modern mind. Good to Great achieves a rare distinction: a management book full of vital ideas that reads as well as a fast-paced novel.
-
-
Awesome book really enjoyed it 🙌🙌
- By Jon on 17-12-20
-
The Diet Myth
- The Real Science Behind What We Eat
- By: Tim Spector
- Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
- Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Why do most diets fail? Why does one person eat a certain meal and gain weight, while another eating the same meal loses pounds? Why, despite all the advice about what to eat, are we all still getting fatter? The answers are much more surprising - and fascinating - than we've been led to believe. The key to health and weight loss lies not in the latest fad diet, nor even in the simple mantra of 'eat less, exercise more', but in the microbes already inside us.
-
-
Finally
- By David Jackson on 04-02-16
-
The Happiness Advantage
- By: Shawn Achor
- Narrated by: Shawn Achor
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Our most commonly held formula for success is broken. Conventional wisdom holds that if we work hard we will be more successful, and if we are more successful, then we'll be happy. If we can just find that great job, win that next promotion, lose those five pounds, happiness will follow. But recent discoveries in the field of positive psychology have shown that this formula is actually backward; happiness fuels success, not the other way around.
-
-
Fantastic!
- By Matthew J Heyhoe on 10-08-17
-
Finding Flow
- The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life
- By: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Based on a far-reaching study of thousands of individuals, Finding Flow contends that we often walk through our days unaware of and out of touch with our emotional lives. Our inattention makes us constantly bounce between two extremes: During much of the day, we live filled with the anxiety and pressures of our work and obligations, and during our leisure moments, we tend to live in passive boredom.
-
-
My fave book!!
- By ALEKSANDER F WEILER on 28-03-20
-
Grit
- The Power of Passion and Perseverance
- By: Angela Duckworth
- Narrated by: Angela Duckworth
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Why do naturally talented people frequently fail to reach their potential while other far less gifted individuals go on to achieve amazing things? The secret to outstanding achievement is not talent but a passionate persistence. In other words, grit. MacArthur Genius Award-winning psychologist Angela Duckworth shares fascinating new revelations about who succeeds in life and why.
-
-
I found the Ted talk more helpful
- By Ezri Dax on 21-05-16
-
The Joy of Movement
- How Exercise Helps Us Find Happiness, Hope, Connection, and Courage
- By: Kelly McGonigal
- Narrated by: Kelly McGonigal
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Exercise is health-enhancing and life-extending, yet many of us feel it's a chore. But as Kelly McGonigal reveals, it doesn't have to be. Movement can and should be a source of joy. Through her trademark blend of science and storytelling, McGonigal draws on insights from neuroscience, psychology, anthropology, and evolutionary biology, as well as memoirs, ethnographies, and philosophers. She shows how movement is intertwined with some of the most basic human joys, including self-expression, social connection, and mastery.
-
-
Not much science here
- By A Customer on 22-05-20
-
Gratitude Works!
- A 21-Day Program for Creating Emotional Prosperity
- By: Robert A. Emmons
- Narrated by: John McLain
- Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Recent dramatic advances in our understanding of gratitude have changed the question from "does gratitude work?" to "how do we get more of it?" This book explores evidence-based practices in a compelling and accessible way and provides a step-by-step guide to cultivating gratitude in our lives. Living Gratitude also shows how religious, philosophical, and spiritual traditions validate the greatest insights of science about gratitude.
-
Breath
- The New Science of a Lost Art
- By: James Nestor
- Narrated by: James Nestor
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
There is nothing more essential to our health and wellbeing than breathing: take air in, let it out, repeat 25,000 times a day. Yet, as a species, humans have lost the ability to breathe correctly, with grave consequences. Journalist James Nestor travels the world to figure out what went wrong and how to fix it.
-
-
A waste of time
- By driver on 29-07-20
-
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big
- Kind of the Story of My Life
- By: Scott Adams
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Scott Adams has likely failed at more things than anyone you’ve ever met or anyone you’ve even heard of. So how did he go from hapless office worker and serial failure to the creator of Dilbert, one of the world’s most famous syndicated comic strips, in just a few years? In How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big, Adams shares the game plan he’s followed since he was a teen: invite failure in, embrace it, then pick its pocket.
-
-
A blend of funny and self-help
- By ModernEfficientDesign on 09-07-20
-
Think Like a Monk
- The Secret of How to Harness the Power of Positivity and Be Happy Now
- By: Jay Shetty
- Narrated by: Jay Shetty
- Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Jay Shetty, social media superstar and host of the number one podcast ‘On Purpose’, distils the timeless wisdom he learned as a practising monk into practical steps anyone can take every day to live a less anxious, more meaningful life.
-
-
Extremely surface level - nothing original
- By Anonymous User on 08-11-20
-
Tiny Habits
- The Small Changes That Change Everything
- By: BJ Fogg
- Narrated by: BJ Fogg
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
For years, we’ve been told that being more healthy and productive is a matter of willpower: that we should follow the latest fad and make constant changes to our lifestyles. But whether in our diets, fitness plans or jobs, radical overhauls never work. Instead we should start with quick wins - and embed new, tiny habits into our everyday routines.
-
-
One to avoid
- By Ryan on 19-01-20
-
The Gifts of Imperfection
- By: Brené Brown
- Narrated by: Brené Brown
- Length: 4 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
What transforms this audiobook from written word to effective daily practices are the 10 guideposts to wholehearted living. The guideposts not only help us understand the practices that will allow us to change our lives and families, they also walk us through the unattainable and sabotaging expectations that get in the way.
-
-
Love hearing Brené read it this time!
- By A Vedder on 12-09-20
-
The Happiness Hypothesis
- By: Jonathan Haidt
- Narrated by: Ryan Vincent Anderson
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The Happiness Hypothesis is about ten Great Ideas. Each chapter is an attempt to savor one idea that has been discovered by several of the world's civilizations - to question it in light of what we now know from scientific research, and to extract from it the lessons that still apply to our modern lives and illuminate the causes of human flourishing. Award-winning psychologist Jonathan Haidt, the author of The Righteous Mind, shows how a deeper understanding of the world's philosophical wisdom and its enduring maxims can enrich and even transform our lives.
-
-
interesting listen
- By John on 11-03-19
-
Mindset - Updated Edition
- Changing the Way You Think to Fulfil Your Potential
- By: Dr Carol Dweck
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
World-renowned Stanford University psychologist Carol Dweck, in decades of research on achievement and success, has discovered a truly groundbreaking idea - the power of our mindset. Dweck explains why it's not just our abilities and talent that bring us success - but whether we approach them with a fixed or growth mindset. She makes clear why praising intelligence and ability doesn't foster self-esteem and lead to accomplishment but may actually jeopardise success.
-
-
Robot voice
- By Dominika Powojska on 26-03-19
Summary
In Happier, Professor Ben-Shahar brings the ideas of the Ivory Tower to Main Street, distilling the lessons and exercises from his course into an audio trove of practical wisdom. Grounded in the Positive Psychology movement, based on years of researching the works of scientists, academics, and philosophers, Happier emphasizes the importance of pursuing a life of both pleasure and meaning. Lessons, exercises, and "Happiness Boosters" cover self-esteem, empathy, friendship, love, achievement, creativity, spirituality, and humor.
Questions will help listeners identify activities that will make them happier immediately, as they apply what they've learned to school, work, and personal relationships. You'll discover that happiness, not money, is the ultimate currency, that we can't be happy unless we first give ourselves permission to be human, and that happiness isn't so elusive after all.
More from the same
What listeners say about Happier
Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Gillian
- 10-07-16
Good information, but the narration let it down
I wanted to hear this as it was a best seller from a leading researcher in the field of positive psychology and I'd heard some good things about it. I wasn't disappointed! It explores the nature of happiness, provides many simple exercises to help you become happier and debunks some of the myths around this popular topic. And all in a very manageable 4 hours.
There’s certainly an element of self-help in the book as it’s designed to help you be happier, but it’s based on solid research which not all books in the self-help area are. I believe a solid research base is important if you’re making recommendations for what someone else should do with their life, but it isn't enough to make it an interesting 'read'. I don't know about you, but sometimes I find research-based material can come across as a bit dry and uninteresting, especially in an audio.
That’s definitely not something you need to worry about here though. In this case the author always uses lots of helpful everyday examples to apply the research principles to everyday life situations. I found this made it easy to try some of the suggestions myself. For me some worked, others...not so much.
As my headline states I thought the narration let the book down. The main narrator, a chap called Jeff Woodman, was great. He paced the material well and obviously understood it. However there are lots of exercises throughout the book right from the very start and they are read by a completely different narrator whose voice and tone doesn't in any way match those of Mr Woodman. The audio jumps from one voice to the other with no warning and I found this jarring. I would have preferred the exercises to be read by the main narrator, or maybe to have been available on an PDF as they are with some other books.
Overall a good purchase, definitely worth another listen.
1 person found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Mat
- 22-06-14
Excellent Philosophy and Research
Would you listen to Happier again? Why?
Yes, I have listened to this 3 times so far and I will no doubt listen again
What was one of the most memorable moments of Happier?
None in particular, however I feel that the whole book is so relevant and informative to us all that the whole story is a must to be listened to.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
Yes, and I have listened to it all in one sitting twice.
Any additional comments?
This is an area of psychology that I am extremely interested and passionate about - however, you do not need to have any psychology knowledge to follow the book or any of the research referenced as it is so well told it relates to everyday life and situations.
1 person found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Amazon Kunde
- 25-02-20
Essential Reading!
Gets to the heart of what I really want in life and offers exercises for experiencing it now and in the future :)
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Anonymous User
- 20-10-19
okay I guess... some good bits
Started off well, but lost me from the middle as it went in to self help book mode which became boring fast. It has some good concepts to implement which with discipline I believe will lead towards life changing experiences and contribute to one feeling more happy.
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Nina Weissman
- 22-08-16
Worth Reading for Happiness Health and Life
Any additional comments?
The way the author very effectively approaches the topic of succeeding in spite of obstacles and dealing with setbacks and ' being tested by adversity' for healthy self esteem etc.
-
Overall

- John
- 29-09-07
Great Book
Great Book. It has changed my perceptions on life. Much of it is common sense when you think about it. But many times, we have to clean the cob webs from our mind to see it by readin a well written and well read book like this. Very enjoyable.
11 people found this helpful
-
Overall

- Patrick
- 29-02-08
Simple and Engaging
I listened to this audio book on the drive to and from school. Tal-Ben Shahar's work is seminal to positive psychology and the the inner work of happiness.
The reader does a fantastic job conveying Shahar's passion and insight.
9 people found this helpful
-
Overall

- Michele
- 28-04-08
fun!
I love this book! This is a great audiobook to listen to again and again.
4 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- Y. Tang
- 28-01-18
Love the book, annoyed by the "mother" ...
I enjoyed the book.
The reason I didn't rate 4 or higher is that a motherly figure popped out every now and then. She summarizes the section I just listened and her content and tone are as if she is talking to a baby!
Just recently started listening to it for the second time, then the annoying and lecturing "mother" showed up again, reminding me of the part I strongly dislike the book. Not sure the hardcopy book or the kindle version has the same lecturing "person"
2 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- TitoDuke
- 02-07-17
Big disappointment
I was excited to read this book on happiness. I had been obsessed with the topic 7 years ago and had found some gems, I thought that this would further deepen my knowledge given that the author had a super popular class on happiness at Harvard. However I've found books like Stumbling on Happiness, and even another Harvard class called "What's the right thing to do" to be much more conducive to really understand how to be happy. This book just tells you to find activities that are pleasurable and bring long term benefits. It tried to get people to seek or create happiness. I strongly believe the opposite is true, happiness is something people are born with. We all start our lives happy, yet it's our biases, and overestimation of how good and bad different outcomes are that make us unhappy. Go ahead and read the book if you'd like but then please go pick up other books on Happiness and take all of them with a grain of salt.
2 people found this helpful
-
Overall

- Genny
- 21-01-10
Packed with Information
This book was jam packed with information and would probably be best read instead of listened to. It was full of ideas and quizzes that need to be absorbed and seen or written down. If you are primarily an auditory learner, it would be fine.
5 people found this helpful
-
Overall

- Kristin
- 17-02-10
Smart, current and exactly what I wanted!
This audio book, while it may be a little slow to pick up- has made a huge difference in how I think about the world. Being a highly educated, and continuously questioning artist, I have been down many paths in search of truth. This book offers pragmatic, research based answers for spiritual and existential questions that make us inherently human. I am very glad the author chose to do the work to put this together. It has inspired me to focus more on the role work plays in my life.
4 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- Brian Sachetta
- 22-07-20
Non-mainstream (but still great) view on happiness
Happiness is a really weird thing. We all chase it, directly or indirectly, and yet so many of us are still unhappy, anxious, depressed, etc. Though I’m not sure that any one book can truly solve all of your problems, this one can certainly provide a needed perspective on the subject of satisfaction.
In essence, this book’s aim is to show us that, on a societal level, we’re mostly unhappy because we chase things we think will eventually lead to happiness — not those that make us happy in and of themselves. For example, we spend years in jobs we don’t love because we think they will lead to big payoffs down the road.
Strategies like these can keep us stuck in the rat race, or worse, trapped in “golden handcuffs,” not happy with our jobs, but also not willing to give up our high living standards. Worse yet, such strategies can lead us to put happiness and success on pedestals. And when we ultimately get where we were looking to go, we often find that it’s not quite the paradise we were imagining. This can lead to burn out, depression, and nihilism, says the author.
The way out of this mess is to spend our time in pursuit of the things that make us happy directly — not those that may lead to it indirectly (like money, luxury goods, fame, etc). Throughout the book, the author goes in-depth on what this might look like for us, all while maintaining a practical, yet optimistic, outlook.
It’s a very good book and one that almost everyone could learn something from (myself included). It’s not necessarily mind-blowing, just very relatable and accurate. I would seriously recommend it to anyone.
-Brian Sachetta
Author of “Get Out of Your Head”
1 person found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- Quasar
- 01-07-18
Compelling, easy listen
I recommend this book as a way to gain perspective on one’s journey towards a fulfilling life. Some criticisms: The narrator reads in an overly enthusiastic manner, much like one would read a book to a child—it can get annoying. The author talks a lot about himself. Despite these things, I enjoyed the book overall.
1 person found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- icanthruchrist
- 27-04-18
I’m Happier because if it!
I loved this book! It was super helpful and practical! A truly rich and rewarding book. I would definitely recommend it to anyone desiring to live a “Happier” life.
1 person found this helpful