Wholeness cannot be found in the mere avoidance of troubling feelings... . To live without anxiety is to live without growth. It’s an amazing book. Many times after finishing a reading session, I had something new about to think. The book does an amazing job exploring ideas of happiness, anger, death, and various stoic philosophies. Cílem knihy je zejména nás naučit se na svět a štěstí dívat jinýma očima, jak zvládat úzkostné situace, jak uvažovat o chování jiných lidí, ale i tom tom svém a jak najít klid v duši. Přestože se jedná o hodně útlou knihu (dalo by se říci sešítek), tak má v sobě velké poselství. Každý člověk si z přečtení této knihy odnese něco jiného, což je naprosto v pořádku. Každý člověk má totiž jiné potřeby, jiná trápení a také se dívá na spoustu věcí jinak. Důležité je se hlavně nad myšlenkami, které nám jsou zde nabídnuty, zamyslet a možná se je pokusit i aplikovat do svého života (pokud cítíme, že je to opravdu potřeba). It is a fantastic taster of what Derren Brown’s book Happy can give. The main points are there but one of the most enjoyable bits about Happy was the detail that Derren went into and his excellent and interesting anecdotes, these are not present in this smaller and surmised version. Nonetheless, I still enjoyed it, even after just finishing Happy it was a nice round up of the lessons learnt.

The Devil's Picturebook". Derren Brown. Archived from the original on 21 November 2010 . Retrieved 9 January 2011. TV, film and theatre | Alumni and friends | University of Bristol". Bristol.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016 . Retrieved 30 May 2017. Davies, Megan (23 August 2018). "Derren Brown will try to convince a man to sacrifice his life for a stranger in new Netflix special". Digital Spy . Retrieved 5 September 2018.Really brilliant and just crammed with wisdom and insight. It will genuinely make a difference to me and the way I think about myself.' Stephen Fry as such, the work fails to add any substantial depth in consideration of the original. it instead merely cuts out the details of the first book that made it more engaging, almost creating a close minded tone on seemingly oversimplified views of its complex topics. I am going to make a concerted attempt to incorporate some of these concepts into my own way of thinking and living, and I heartily commend Derren’s book to everybody. Everybody. We can all learn something from this well thought-out piece of philosophical writing, and I would go so far as to say that it is currently my favorite book of 2016.

Oh, my! I'm not exactly un-educated but I found the language very high-blown and academic. It was hard going at times but then, it would suddenly switch into story-telling. It fried me and I found much of the book hard to get though. It is VERY long and I would say that it could have been edited to half the length and still been detailed enough. I really don't know why he wanted to make it so incredibly detailed. Don't get me wrong, it's beautifully crafted, but I would say it belongs more on the reading list for a degree than your average Joe's weekend reading. Brown's first two books were intended for magicians; they were written before his fame. He has said that he pulled them from the market when he found that non-magicians would bring them to his shows for autographs. He says he felt bad because, "...they're spending a lot of money on those things and...if they wanted to find out how I was doing the TV shows it wasn't really answering that question." [83]AC Grayling: Never mind the lottery, these are the real secrets of magic - Commentators, Opinion". The Independent. London. 6 March 2006 . Retrieved 14 September 2009.