The Single Most Useful Book I have Ever Read
Is How We Choose To Be Happy by Rick Foster and Greg Hicks. I got it so long ago I have the paperback version of it. It is, in and of itself, a very useful book - but more than that, it introduced me to the idea that we have control over our thoughts, our emotions, the choices we make, and the ideas that we act on - and the ones we ignore. I had read these ideas in a number of books previously, but this was the book in which they consciously became embedded in my mind; and in turn this book led to further, helpful study of subjects like Buddhism and Stoicism which take this idea further. Its quite a dry book, as it works through the nine choices that happy people make - the authors are academics, and it shows. But what makes it so special is that the people in it have had awful, heartbreaking things happen to them, and have still chosen happiness. That sounds quite glib, until you see the stories broken down and how those choices are made under even the most diff...