Broadcasting Happiness

Essential Reading

This is such a wonderful, helpful book. I think anyone could benefit from listening to it. I found it full of 'aha' moments and I've already read just about everything on happiness!
The story we tell matters so much more than we know.

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Get to the point. This is unlistenble. Just blahh

She keeps telling us about what she is going to tell us. But she doesn't tell us anything ...yet...I am going to stop this soon. Blahh blahh blahh but nothing....
Listen to an Anthony Robbins book on how to do this type of thing ...

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antidotes, very little science

This is a "law of attraction " book.

You will find stories like a paraplegic who decides he is going to do an iron man competition a year after his injury and a school that decided to focus on positive aspects. of course they both succeed meaning that you can too. Never mind the grants given to the school and well documented cases where the disabled never returned to high function ( read about FDR's polio if you haven't ). Sorry, this book is not science.

The book pushes the idea that everything will be better if we collectively talk only about positive things or talk positively about the few negative things we cannot avoid. This has appeal and the case is made compelling with antidotes; would be close to a 3 star book if science was not claimed.

The perspective is too simplistic for me to swallow whole but not without merit.

The parts of the book about tricking others to share your messages are somewhat troubling to me too.

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totally positive and just what I needed

loved it I practice with passion every day. I will be sharing with my employees

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Practical based on examples and studies

A little preachy at the end for journalists but otherwise excellent with many good examples of how to apply.

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winner winner chicken dinner.l -

Kept my attention while providing insightful and a founder of information. practical information that you can play every day.

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Three cheers for positivity!

I was surprised at the research results for positive stories going viral- from my common person eye, I would assume the opposite since many news stations still seemingly thrive on the shock factor of tragedy--

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Great Tips

Am always sceptical about books like these but am glad I listened to this. Narration was excellent though the voice was a little bit too bitingly sharp for me. something a little softer would have been great. A lot of great tips in the book. We cannot avoid delivering bad news but it's how we do it. Compassion and context are necessary. I recommend this book. With all the negative stories we are constantly bombarded with, the world needs people who can broadcast happy stories because there are so many good things going on in the world.

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Good Mesage but Superficial

This book deals with the idea that by changing the messages you broadcast to the world, you and the world will ultimately change. Here, broadcasting positivity is better than broadcasting negativity, which is often deemed toxic and dangerous. (the actual boundary between what is positive and what is negative is naturally up for interpretation)

Everyone knows that a positive outlook is enjoyable for you and those around you but I felt that this book takes this idea into the realm of superstition at times, in that broadcasting positive messages and having happy thoughts will somehow cause amazing things to happen.

I also thought that this book was superficial. Consider Dicken's "A Christmas Carol." Consider an alternative version in which instead of being visited by 3 ghosts, Scrooge decides to implement the teachings of this book.

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Informative, thoughtful and inspiring

Everyone could benefit from reading this book. Michelle Gielan’s simple but important message that we are all broadcasters of news and that the power to choose whether that is positive or negative is ours is powerful. The way in which she shares her information with scientific research, personal examples and anecdotal stories makes reading the material fresh and fun as well as informative. I cannot wait to apply these principles to my own daily practice and reap the rewards of greater positivity around me.

The audio performance of this book is fantastic as Michelle is a Talented newscaster with a great voice.