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Habits for Greatness

30 Lessons from the Greats to Live Your Best Life Now

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Habits for Greatness

By: Dr Tim Sharp
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While it may seem that chaos and confusion reigns today, humans have a long history of wisdom and inspiration.

Dr Tim Sharp, aka Dr Happy, highlights practical lessons from some of the great thinkers of all time to show you the path to your best life now. Habits for Greatness teaches you 30 lessons from 30 of the greatest philosophies, religions, psychologists, creators, movements and even fictional characters to allow you to apply these lessons as lifestyle habits, so you can step into your greatness.

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All stars
Most relevant
Good life lessons. Good reminder of where we are in life and what should we be focusing on at times

Good

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Disappointing. Not presented well so that the content was obscured. The BBC would have done this better

Weak production values when compared to the BBC

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A man justifying children’s bad behaviour with a sop story - grow up - bad things happen, behaving badly due to bad things happening is not a valid reason. Instead of letting brats run around throwing things BE A PARENT. This proves why so many people are angry at society, people using excuses to justify poor behaviour and zero parenting. Irritating voice and accent. Not recommended. BS philosophy.

24 minutes in I got angry

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I found “doctor happy” to be an unappealing and patronising author/reader who gives me the feeling he feels his blindingly obvious nuggets of wisdom, are gold (and not the scrapings out the bottom of the cliche barrel).

Secondarily, it’s also ploddingly slow - like he has a few bullet points which he’s desperately trying to tease out into many hours of content.

If you want something that can actually help I’d say read/listen to “Atomic Habits” instead.

There is a reason this is free on Audible!!!

Lacking incite, patronising & not very entertaining

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I found it somewhat obvious, repetitive, slightly condescending and actually contradicts itself often

For example, there is advice to “just let things go.” Don’t try to change anything or anyone. A great life lesson - and a habit for greatness - that we should all strive to follow (the book says)

Later on we are told to stand up for inequality in all its ugliness, whether based on race, gender or gender identity. We are told that we should consider going on demonstrations and marches. To passively stand by and do nothing makes us culpable so we should practice the habit of standing up to injustice - this is a habit for greatness

Try going on a march chanting and carrying a banner and also at the same time just letting it go and not trying to change anyone or anything

Maybe I feel this was a somewhat pointless book because I am 60 and have long since worked through the many facets of life and am at peace with what I stand for etc

Maybe worth a listen to make you think, and maybe my younger self might have found some useful life lessons, but if I had my time again I would not bother spending a few hours listening to this. Sorry “Dr Happy”

Also - my goodness, if you want a good chuckle (maybe a fitting purpose for this book by Dr Happy), listen to the totally cringeworthy “reviews” in all their glorious accents. I don’t doubt that these are genuine written reviews from his students but the awful male French accent was very funny. The terrible Indian accent from a woman who I think was Welsh was also funny.

I would like to be more positive about this but…

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