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Happy As : Why the quest for happiness is making us miserable.

By: Publisher: Melbourne : Bonnier Publishing Australia, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (134 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781760681128
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Happy As : Why the quest for happiness is making us miserableOnline resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Happy As -- Epigraph -- Contents -- Epigraph -- Foreword -- Preface -- Part one: #happiness -- 1 The Betty Crocker happiness mud cake -- 2 What does this bloody happiness business actually mean? -- 3 When the f*ck did happiness become king? -- 4 Spinning happiness -- 5 Shooing the bird -- 6 What if I have no idea who I am? -- 7 We'd all like to be the hero of our story - but most of the time we're the villain -- 8 But what do you mean? -- 9 You're part of the school of fish -- 10 How unhappiness became the deadliest of sins -- 11 'Brand me' -- 12 You're about to be voted off the island -- 13 God is dead. Social media is God -- 14 Millenials and the iGen - are they truly f*cked up? -- 15 Could you get on with it and be perfect already? -- 16 The wellness vortex -- Part two: The f*cking solution -- 17 Communicating the solution -- 18 Art will make you f*cking happy. Everything is f*cking art -- 19 Calm the f*ck down -- 20 Don't just settle for what's okay, or even what you like, or even what you love - find what you f*cking love -- 21 Now is a con -- 22 You're not f*cking no one, you'll always be, inherently, someone -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography -- About the author -- Imprint -- Echo.
Summary: In a world where data is the new currency, social media is turning us all into walking, talking brands and billboards and we're meant to be mindful, manifesting and present, isn't it a bit rich to be expected to be happy, too?.
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Intro -- Happy As -- Epigraph -- Contents -- Epigraph -- Foreword -- Preface -- Part one: #happiness -- 1 The Betty Crocker happiness mud cake -- 2 What does this bloody happiness business actually mean? -- 3 When the f*ck did happiness become king? -- 4 Spinning happiness -- 5 Shooing the bird -- 6 What if I have no idea who I am? -- 7 We'd all like to be the hero of our story - but most of the time we're the villain -- 8 But what do you mean? -- 9 You're part of the school of fish -- 10 How unhappiness became the deadliest of sins -- 11 'Brand me' -- 12 You're about to be voted off the island -- 13 God is dead. Social media is God -- 14 Millenials and the iGen - are they truly f*cked up? -- 15 Could you get on with it and be perfect already? -- 16 The wellness vortex -- Part two: The f*cking solution -- 17 Communicating the solution -- 18 Art will make you f*cking happy. Everything is f*cking art -- 19 Calm the f*ck down -- 20 Don't just settle for what's okay, or even what you like, or even what you love - find what you f*cking love -- 21 Now is a con -- 22 You're not f*cking no one, you'll always be, inherently, someone -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography -- About the author -- Imprint -- Echo.

In a world where data is the new currency, social media is turning us all into walking, talking brands and billboards and we're meant to be mindful, manifesting and present, isn't it a bit rich to be expected to be happy, too?.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2019. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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