The Art of Living Free, the learning platform of The Center for Social Leadership, would like to offer you two free books by Dr. Anthony Silard:
TO LIVE THE LIFE YOU LOVE IS SUCCESS
TO LOVE THE LIFE YOU LIVE IS HAPPINESS
Your definition of happiness is precisely what makes you unhappy. Have you found happiness and inner peace to be elusive at times in your life? Have your attempts at seeking fulfillment only yielded short-term pleasure followed by feelings of meaninglessness, loneliness and anxiety?
In The Myth of Happiness, Dr. Silard challenges our cultural myths about both happiness and success. Here are some of the counterinuitive principles you will learn:
• Happiness is a seed that grows in the gardens of others.
• We spend our waking hours giving to the people whom we fear may abandon us if we neglect them rather than the people we love the most.
• Success is choosing how you want to live. Happiness is living with what you choose.
• A goal, if you are successful at achieving it, passes from in front of you to behind you. Your life purpose always remains in front of you.
The Myth of Happiness is a clarion call for anyone wishing to invite more happiness and social connection into their lives.
SPENDING TIME WITH OTHERS
IS NOT THE WAY OUT OF LONELINESS
Are you a person who strives to develop close, meaningful relationships? Have you experienced situations in which your efforts are thwarted because others do not see friendship through the lens of loyalty, kindness and a willingness to genuinely listen and offer support that you do?
In The Myth of Friendship, Dr. Silard challenges current thinking about friendship. In order to reduce loneliness and develop enduring relationships in your life, you will learn that:
• Too much separateness from—or togetherness with—others will only compound your loneliness.
• Your best relationships are with people who are better than you—but not in a dimension core to your personal identity in which you are already strong.
• Relationships last when you choose people you not only like, but also want to be like.
• Instead of distracting you from developing meaningful friendships, cultivating your life purpose will bring meaningful people into your life with whom you naturally become friends.
The Myth of Friendship offers a revolutionary approach to relationship development that will make you question your preconceptions about friendship and help you fill your life with more meaningful and sustainable relationships.
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