2024 the best-selling book on happiness review

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The self-published phenomenon - fully revised and expanded

I almost didn’t publish Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends on It. Here I was, a CEO who’d fallen apart after his company failed, writing a book about how loving himself saved him. I thought I’d be a laughingstock and my career would be finished.

But I stepped through the fears and shared my truth with the world. The book went viral. Amazing people all over bought copies for friends and family. For some, this book saved their lives. For others, it was the first time they ever loved themselves.

Many readers and listeners reached out and asked questions. This taught me that, to create lasting impact, I had to go deeper. So, seven years later, here it is. All the questions I received, resolved. My intention is that by the time you finish this new edition, not only will you be committed to loving yourself, you’ll know exactly how to do it. And, most importantly, how to make it last.

Reviewer: James Altucher
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: One of the most important books I've read this year
Review: I reviewed this also on my blog. Here is the review:Kamal went missing. We had been corresponding for over a year, ever since I started this blog. I'm very grateful for the great friends I have met through this blog. It has been a totally unexpected but much appreciated benefit of doing this.Finally I was visiting San Francisco and after 100s of emails back and forth during the prior year, I was getting all set to meet Kamal Ravikant. But he didn't show up for our planned breakfast. His brother, Naval, called him a few times. "He's at home," Naval said, "but he's not picking up. His illness must be overwhelming him today." Naval had a GPS specifically attached to where Kamal was.Kamal was very sick. This had been going on for months. He had gotten more and more sick. Some days he couldn't move or wake up. Other days he had enough energy to go outside but only for minutes and then he had to go back inside. Kamal's sickness was chronic. The doctors couldn't help him, he was infinitely tired, feverish, in pain, and it was getting worse.I knew from our correspondences that Kamal had been going through a hard time before he got sick. His company, which had once been well enough to raise a significant amount of money, was faltering, perhaps failing. He had recently broken off a relationship. A close friend had died.Often when we attach our happiness to external goals: financial success, relationship success, etc, we get disappointed. Even when things work out, everything cycles, the happiness is often fleeting.When those goals break, the external pain immediately gets reflected into our internal bodies. Our emotions break. We feel sad, disappointed, in pain. We cling to the past happiness, or our hoped-for goals that now have to change. It often feels like your arm is being torn off your body.But Kamal was trying to hold it all together to be fair to everyone within his company - the employees, the investors, the customers. He was clinging to the past, to the future. To everything and everyone but his own happiness in the present.So his emotional body couldn't handle it anymore. His emotional arms and legs were torn off. And then his physical body broke. He completely broke down. I noticed he had dropped out of touch a few months earlier and I hadn't seen his comments on the blog in awhile. "What's going on?" I wrote him. "I'm sick," was his reply. He dropped out.But then he started getting better. He started writing again and telling me what was going on in his life. He started commenting on the blog again and interacting with the great community developing here. He was aive again. We finally ended up meeting."How'd you get better?" I asked. "What happened?""I'll tell you the secret," he said, "I thought I was going to die. I was just lying in bed and couldn't move, I had a high fever, and was in too much pain. I really thought I was going to die. Finally, I just started saying over and over again, "I love myself." He paused and started saying it right then as if still in the cure. "I love myself. I love myself. I love myself. I would repeat it all day. "As Kamal then says in the just published book, "Love Yourself As If Your Life Depends On It" about his experience:"And I got better. My body started healing faster. My state of mind grew lighter. But the thing I never expected or imagined, life got better. But not just better, things happened that were fantastically out of my reach. This I couldn't have dreamed of [...] I found myself using the word `magic' to describe what was happening. And through it all I kept repeating to myself, "I love myself. I love myself. I love myself."In the book Kamal describes his transition from sickness into health and the other magical things that happened to him. He also gives a series of techniques and practices to try this for yourself in a variety of ways and finally he answers the dreaded question, what happens if you don't love yourself? Can you still get this magic into your life?"Think about it," he said to me months later when we met in NYC, "when someone is in love, they almost magically look better. I needed to be in love with myself to feel better. So much of what had happened had weighed on me until I collapsed. Now I needed to love myself. It became a mantra for me."As someone explained to me the other day, the word "mantra" has two parts (in Sanskrit): "man" - thoughtfulness with zeal, and "tra" - to protect. So by saying "I love myself" over and over Kamal was protecting the thought, nourishing it, and the love was nourishing the rest of his body, his emotions, his mind, his spirit.Kamal is now completely recovered. He also figured out the situation with his business and when I saw him in NYC it was as if a gigantic weight had been lifted off his shoulders. He is so recovered that I can't recommend enough the book about his experience, available on Kindle right here. He used Amazon directly, uploaded the book and it became available within days after he wrote it.I'll let a quote from Kamal's excellent book close this post:"If a painful memory arises, don't fight it or try to push it away - you're in quicksand. Struggle reinforces pain. Instead, go to love. Love for yourself. Feel it. If you have to fake it, fine. It'll become real eventually Feel the love for yourself as the memory ebbs and flows. That will take the power away.And even more importantly, it will shift the wiring of the memory. Do it again and again. Love. Re-wire. Love. Re-wire. It's your mind. You can do whatever you want.[...] The results are worth it. I wish that for you."

Reviewer: Raz
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Loved This Book Like My Life Depended On It!
Review: You always forget that sometimes the simplest explanation is the right one.My review:I put off reading this book for a very long time. I kept cringing at the thought of how much I hated saying “I love myself”. And I already felt so defeated having to read another self-love book — since they all started to feel the same.However, this book was different. This one was the one I needed most. And now I truly believe I had to read all the others to understand and have a deep connection with Ravikant’s book.Although the concepts might seem super simple and obvious, it really is a lot more meaningful when you read and believe it.The main takeaway is repeating “I love myself” over and over again until the thought comes naturally. And you might think “how can that work if I don’t mean it?” Well, the best way I was able to explain it was by relating it to math for my friend who hates math:People who hate math usually hate it because it’s too difficult and it doesn’t come easy to them. But after solving a question over and over again, it starts to come naturally. No matter how much you hate math, 2+2 on a quiz will make you a lot happier than a question on derivatives. And if you had to choose between solving two problems, you’ll already be solving the one that comes most naturally, without even giving the other one a shot.Eventually, saying you love yourself will become the 2+2 question and answer. You will say “I love myself” rather than “I hate myself”, because hating yourself will be a lot harder. When you’re presented with a hurdle, you’ll immediately believe in yourself because it’s the natural thing to do. BUT, this takes time. Most of us have hated ourselves so long that saying “I hate myself” is as natural as 1+0. Luckily for you, it’ll be quick when you realize the feeling you get from being happy will extremely outweigh the comfortability and familiarity in feeling unworthy. You just have to full-heartedly give the mantra a try.If you’re like me, that is going to be extremely exhausting. I started off by giving myself just 5 minutes where I fully commit to believing “I love myself”. Then I started to increase the time. And it all compounded from there.Imagine how much you could accomplish if you truly loved yourself.I highly recommend you read this book and find out.

Reviewer: Leoni
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: This book has changed my life. There are just 3 simple exercises to do each day, I do them and the results are I feel like a different person. I have started reading lots of different self help books over the years. At 67, the title jumped out at me so I committed to finishing the book and doing whatever was asked of me, and it was worth it. It's well written in a simplistic style and the author shares his own highs and lows. If you or anyone you love has self esteem issues, buy the book, read it, do the exercises daily and feel the benefits.

Reviewer: TinA
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: The principal's and "techniques" are too simple in the book but the author's story and his words make it impactful, and add a whole new meaning to it. All of us can feel ourselves in some form or the other in his story. I want to read more. It felt too short of a read for me. I have questions: did he keep coasting after moving back to NYC? What happened next??However, great read! Definitely recommend for self love. It's very powerful.

Reviewer: Fermín
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: One single idea, though powerful if you commit to it.

Reviewer: Dielson Sales de Carvalho
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Apesar de curto, o livro apresenta um conceito interessante para seguir. Amar a si próprio é uma tarefa que exige atenção constante, sempre revendo e repetindo o que você faz aos olhos de alguém que te ama verdadeiramente. Você aconselharia alguém que você ama a fazer a mesma coisa coisa que você está fazendo? A viver no mesmo lugar? Continuar no mesmo emprego? Ou você desejaria algo melhor?

Reviewer: Niklas Rammerstorfer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: I loved this book. I feel the author is very sympathetic and authentic.The message in this book is very simple and practical. Love yourself.The methods that the author describes are very simple and practical too. One example is to repeat the statement „I love myself“ over and over and over.I have found that affirmations like „I am successful“ typically do not work. But somehow this is different. It is not about accomplishibg something on the outside, but about how you feel on the inside and affirmations do work in this context.I think it changes something inside you, if you go in full force and repeat it as much as humanly possible. Perhaps it is „just“ your focus.I also love this technique because my mind needs something to do and I am and always have been very stubborn to focus on one thing and try to learn everything about it. Change my entire being to reaching my goals. But now for the first time the goal is not to be more empathetic, successful, rich, attractive, kind but to simply love myself as I am and therefore allow myself to breath.. FinallyI agree with the other reviews. It is not really a book, but more of a longer essay.