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# The Happiness Trap (Second Edition): How to Stop Struggling and Start Living

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Free yourself from depression, anxiety, and insecurity, and instead build a rich and meaningful life with the updated and expanded edition of the world’s best-selling guide to escaping the “happiness trap.” Over 1 million copies sold! In The Happiness Trap , Dr. Russ Harris provides a means to escape the epidemic of stress, anxiety, and depression, unlocking the secrets to a truly fulfilling life. Updated and expanded in its second edition, this empowering book presents the insights and techniques of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), covering more topics and providing more practical tools than ever before. Learn how to clarify your values, develop self-compassion, and find true satisfaction with this bigger and better guide to: • Reducing stress and worry • Handling painful thoughts and feelings more effectively • Breaking self-defeating habits • Overcoming insecurity and self-doubt • Building better relationships • Improving performance and finding fulfilment at work The Happiness Trap is for everyone. Whether you’re lacking confidence, facing illness, coping with loss, working in a high-stress job, or suffering from anxiety or depression, this book will show you how to build authentic happiness, from the inside out.

Review: a life changing (for some) narrative - I am a middle-aged white male with a typical job, and I lead a typical life. I don't know if my opinion will persuade anyone to pick up this book. To be honest, I am not terribly concerned about that. I suppose I am writing this primarily as a thank you to the author. The book changed my life forever--in a good way. It brought together many things that have interested me for many years and made sense of them. It took the things I loved most about Zen Buddhism and framed them in a largely scientific context. In this scientific characterization, the power of these concepts is magnified and they are much more accessible to westerners. The writing seems compatible with ideas presented in formal epistemology. The recommended actions and ideas seem at home in the mind of an epistemic skeptic. More than just the book, ACT itself deserves much praise. To me, ACT seems a natural extension of evolutionary psychology. They fit together so seemlessly, at least in my opinion. For those in whom ACT is destined to resonate, the book is definitely a life changer. I thought he brilliantly and patiently encouraged the reader to participate in the many exercises presented in the text. The exercises are not embellishments or superficial ornaments. They are essential challenges to help one become immersed in the theory, help one reach competency in daily life. The exercises are extremely on target and extremely well balanced and measured. One of my favorite things is that when you finish the book, perhaps having left some of the exercises undone, it instantly becomes an incredible reference for the world view it describes. You can go back and finish the exercises. You can flip to a random page and study it. You can systematical refresh yourself on some pre-selected topic. In short, you can become and remain very, very familiar with the material. I am a little sheepish to admit this, but this is the best book I have ever read. I don't mean that it outdances the prose of Tolstoy (etc.). I mean in terms of pure impact on my life. I am sure the book would not effect everyone in this way. As we all know, life is a problem with many solutions (or something along those lines). Some of us might like an entirely different intellectual framework from which to view and interact with the world around us. For them, this book will probably seem ordinary, or worse. But, as for myself, I have found a magnificent text to aid me in the days ahead. My only betrayal of its role is that I know I will always be on the hunt, to some extent, for an even better formulation. Until I find one, I am set.
Review: ACT hold on to its promises - I think the psychotherapists/psychiatrists world hit a milestone with ACT. Clearly, ACT is different from what was proposed until now, and has in my opinion the best approach to all kind of mood disorders. Basically, you defuse unhelpful thoughts, accept negatives emotions and feelings, and live your life according to your defined values in a mindful way in order to attain your goals. This is a whole package for living a better life, and as you notice it won't dig in your past to try to solve your present problems: it just wants to optimize how you leave your life NOW. About the book: This book is a condensed, easy to read, and the perfect choice for someone starting to learn about ACT. Contrarily to many books on the subjects, this book is not for therapists, so a perfect choice for the non professional. Some reproach I can make to this book: - I would have appreciated defusion strategies to disengage from obsessive neutral thoughts: example when we are caught in a pure neutral cognitive process such as a choice to make between A and B that is draining our energy and we can't stop thinking about. -Author decided to rename some of the 6 core principles of ACT. First I think the replacements choices are not pertinent, second it creates confusion when you read other ACT resources. -This is not a remark that concerns only this book but maybe all the ACT approach: ACT never engages in process of creating positive emotions and such, or trying to change your mood and feelings, it rather defuses and accepts. This is a very fine approach, but some recent research on the brain neuroplasticity shows that you can literally rewire the brain to experience positive emotion almost at will which has a very positive effect on mind and body. This aspect is completely left behind by ACT, yet it might be worth considering.

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| Specification | Value |
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| Best Sellers Rank | #1,564 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #9 in Emotional Mental Health #9 in Stress Management Self-Help #10 in Cognitive Psychology (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 6,054 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ a life changing (for some) narrative
*by B***K on June 20, 2012*

I am a middle-aged white male with a typical job, and I lead a typical life. I don't know if my opinion will persuade anyone to pick up this book. To be honest, I am not terribly concerned about that. I suppose I am writing this primarily as a thank you to the author. The book changed my life forever--in a good way. It brought together many things that have interested me for many years and made sense of them. It took the things I loved most about Zen Buddhism and framed them in a largely scientific context. In this scientific characterization, the power of these concepts is magnified and they are much more accessible to westerners. The writing seems compatible with ideas presented in formal epistemology. The recommended actions and ideas seem at home in the mind of an epistemic skeptic. More than just the book, ACT itself deserves much praise. To me, ACT seems a natural extension of evolutionary psychology. They fit together so seemlessly, at least in my opinion. For those in whom ACT is destined to resonate, the book is definitely a life changer. I thought he brilliantly and patiently encouraged the reader to participate in the many exercises presented in the text. The exercises are not embellishments or superficial ornaments. They are essential challenges to help one become immersed in the theory, help one reach competency in daily life. The exercises are extremely on target and extremely well balanced and measured. One of my favorite things is that when you finish the book, perhaps having left some of the exercises undone, it instantly becomes an incredible reference for the world view it describes. You can go back and finish the exercises. You can flip to a random page and study it. You can systematical refresh yourself on some pre-selected topic. In short, you can become and remain very, very familiar with the material. I am a little sheepish to admit this, but this is the best book I have ever read. I don't mean that it outdances the prose of Tolstoy (etc.). I mean in terms of pure impact on my life. I am sure the book would not effect everyone in this way. As we all know, life is a problem with many solutions (or something along those lines). Some of us might like an entirely different intellectual framework from which to view and interact with the world around us. For them, this book will probably seem ordinary, or worse. But, as for myself, I have found a magnificent text to aid me in the days ahead. My only betrayal of its role is that I know I will always be on the hunt, to some extent, for an even better formulation. Until I find one, I am set.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ACT hold on to its promises
*by B***J on December 28, 2012*

I think the psychotherapists/psychiatrists world hit a milestone with ACT. Clearly, ACT is different from what was proposed until now, and has in my opinion the best approach to all kind of mood disorders. Basically, you defuse unhelpful thoughts, accept negatives emotions and feelings, and live your life according to your defined values in a mindful way in order to attain your goals. This is a whole package for living a better life, and as you notice it won't dig in your past to try to solve your present problems: it just wants to optimize how you leave your life NOW. About the book: This book is a condensed, easy to read, and the perfect choice for someone starting to learn about ACT. Contrarily to many books on the subjects, this book is not for therapists, so a perfect choice for the non professional. Some reproach I can make to this book: - I would have appreciated defusion strategies to disengage from obsessive neutral thoughts: example when we are caught in a pure neutral cognitive process such as a choice to make between A and B that is draining our energy and we can't stop thinking about. -Author decided to rename some of the 6 core principles of ACT. First I think the replacements choices are not pertinent, second it creates confusion when you read other ACT resources. -This is not a remark that concerns only this book but maybe all the ACT approach: ACT never engages in process of creating positive emotions and such, or trying to change your mood and feelings, it rather defuses and accepts. This is a very fine approach, but some recent research on the brain neuroplasticity shows that you can literally rewire the brain to experience positive emotion almost at will which has a very positive effect on mind and body. This aspect is completely left behind by ACT, yet it might be worth considering.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I wish I read this book years ago - extremely helpful for anxiety and overthinking
*by B***S on August 15, 2025*

As someone who has experienced long term anxiety and struggles with overthinking, I wish I would have read this book many years ago. Yes, some of the activities feel silly, but I promise you, trust the process, and you will reap the benefits. This book has been so much help (in addition to therapy) in reducing my anxiety and overthinking so I am more productive at work, maintain healthier relationships, and live a more fulfilling life

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