The Happiness Hypothesis By Jonathan Haidt: Textual Analysis

When we were assigned to read this book, I had a couple people tell me that it is not a very good book, or that it was not worth reading, I totally disagree! Typically, reading is not what I find enjoyment in. It has always been a difficult task to find a book that interests me enough to sit down and actually read it and to fully understand it. There have not been very many books that I have actually found interesting enough to actually sit down and read, but this one is one of the books that I did not quite expect to enjoy, but the outcome of my thoughts were different than I had originally expected. Within The Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Haidt, he mentions that there are two ancient truths concerning how the mind works. “The first truth is the foundational idea of the book: the mind is divided into parts that sometimes conflict with each other. The second truth is Shakespeare’s idea about how “thinking makes it
Companionate love grows slowly over the years as lovers apply their attachment and caregiving systems to each other, and as they begin to rely upon, care for, and trust each other. If the metaphor for passionate love was fire, the metaphor for companionate love would be vines growing, intertwining, and gradually binding two people together.” (Page 125) “If passionate love is a drug, it has to wear off eventually, because no one can stay high forever. Passionate love does not ever turn into companionate love. Passionate love and companionate love are two totally separate processes, and they have different time courses.” (Page