Introduction
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ISBN –
978-93-81860-92-2
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Genre:
Self help
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Publishers:
Embassy Books
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Price:
Rs. 250/- (I got this book from the author for a review)
As I
child everytime I was asked what I wanted to be I had different answers to
give. Doctor, teacher, pilot but today when I asked the same question the only
answer I have is I want to be happy. After all that is what our life has been
reduced to, a never ending pursuit of happiness! What attracted me to this book
was the name of the book for that is the question I keep asking myself many
times not to receive any satisfactory answers.
Behind
The book
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This book talks about the
most important thing in your life… about happiness. We all want success,
prosperity, financial gains and some of ius also desire recognition and fame,
but when we look closer, the core question that each one of us stops and asks
oneself every now and then is AM I REALLY HAPPY?
About
the author
Deepak
Chatterjee is an alumnus of Delhi University from where he obtained a degree in
Physics and completed his MBA. An executive in State Bank of India since 1978,
he is currently the Managing Director & CEO of SBI Funds Management, Mumbai
since 2011. The author can be reached at Email
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Me
thinks
As you
might have observed in my reviews so far, self help as a genre is something I
read very keenly for I love reading the author’s experiences. People tend to
tell me that self help books are of not much use but then I don’t read them
thinking tomorrow morning when I will wake up after reading this book I will be
a changed person. I read for I want to understand another fellow human being’s
pursuit in life towards happiness and finding its meaning.
I
believe that each book has some or the other learning to be taken along with
after reading. And it is that learning which changes the way you look at
things. It’s a matter of perspective I believe, the way you see and the way you
believe.
The
author Deepak Chatterjee has managed to bring about this fact of life very
beautifully in the book. A matter of perspective is all that life is all about.
You see things and you conclude it the way you want to not necessarily the way
it actually is. And this leads to all the problems we undergo or to rightly put
it we feel we go through in life.
The
author has shared some of his personal experiences mixed with the learnings
leaving you with some profound lessons of life. The beauty of this book is its
simplicity. The language, narration, the sketches and the tables drawn to
highlight some important contents manage to create a deep impact on your mind
as you read and are also easy to read and remember. These small highlighters
help you go back and still manage to remember the crux of the whole chapter.
For
the first time after a long while I read a book for so long (almost 4 days)
purely because I wanted to let it seep into and then move ahead to another
helping. It was so invigorating that I was compelled to think of many points
myself.
This
book is surely to-be-read-again list for me as I am still learning all that the
author has shared with us.
Foodie Verdict
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This book is like Chocolate Brownie - crunchy, delicious, chocolatey and yummy!