Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take
The Happiness Mindset
Brandon Stanberg · 2014
52/100
👎 Skip It
Bijal Shah's twelve strategies are genuinely encouraging and the book reads quickly, but reviewers who compared it to a magazine article are not being unkind — the content covers well-trodden positive-psychology ground without adding fresh research, original frameworks, or surprising insight. If you have not read anything in the happiness space before, this is a painless entry point; if you have, you will feel like you have read it before.
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Verdict receipt0–100
safety90
substance46
craft55
originality38
accuracy58
hype78
age-fit80
human-eye45
Penny’s verdict52
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