After reading The Magic of Mindful Self-Awareness -How to Stop Overthinking,Clear Your Mind,and Be Happy by Matt Tenney: 9 Lessons I Learned About Overthinking, Clarity, and Happiness
There is a curious paradox about the way our minds work. The very thing that makes us brilliant—the ability to think, to analyze, to anticipate—is also the very thing that makes us miserable. We overthink. We replay conversations that happened days ago, as though our relentless rehearsals could change the ending.
We plan for disasters that never arrive, dragging ourselves through imagined pain as if to prepay our suffering in installments. And then we wonder why happiness feels so elusive, why our days feel heavy even when life is objectively fine.
Matt Tenney's book, The Magic of Mindful Self-Awareness, is not another lecture about positive thinking or a rigid program for self-discipline. It is, instead, a quiet revelation.
Tenney, who has traveled the unusual path from prisoner to monk to teacher, suggests something deceptively simple: that happiness is less about fixing the external world and more about noticing the internal one.
What makes his work resonate is not its novelty—after all, philosophers and sages have spoken about mindful awareness for centuries—but his ability to present it as if he has handed you a tool you forgot you already owned.
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We plan for disasters that never arrive, dragging ourselves through imagined pain as if to prepay our suffering in installments. And then we wonder why happiness feels so elusive, why our days feel heavy even when life is objectively fine.
Matt Tenney's book, The Magic of Mindful Self-Awareness, is not another lecture about positive thinking or a rigid program for self-discipline. It is, instead, a quiet revelation.
Tenney, who has traveled the unusual path from prisoner to monk to teacher, suggests something deceptively simple: that happiness is less about fixing the external world and more about noticing the internal one.
What makes his work resonate is not its novelty—after all, philosophers and sages have spoken about mindful awareness for centuries—but his ability to present it as if he has handed you a tool you forgot you already owned.
After reading The Magic of Mindful Self-Awareness -How to Stop Overthinking,Clear Your Mind,and Be Happy by Matt Tenney: 9 Lessons I Learned About Overthinking, Clarity, and Happiness
There is a curious paradox about the way our minds work. The very thing that makes us brilliant—the ability to think, to analyze, to anticipate—is also the very thing that makes us miserable. We overthink. We replay conversations that happened days ago, as though our relentless rehearsals could change the ending.
We plan for disasters that never arrive, dragging ourselves through imagined pain as if to prepay our suffering in installments. And then we wonder why happiness feels so elusive, why our days feel heavy even when life is objectively fine.
Matt Tenney's book, The Magic of Mindful Self-Awareness, is not another lecture about positive thinking or a rigid program for self-discipline. It is, instead, a quiet revelation.
Tenney, who has traveled the unusual path from prisoner to monk to teacher, suggests something deceptively simple: that happiness is less about fixing the external world and more about noticing the internal one.
What makes his work resonate is not its novelty—after all, philosophers and sages have spoken about mindful awareness for centuries—but his ability to present it as if he has handed you a tool you forgot you already owned.
We plan for disasters that never arrive, dragging ourselves through imagined pain as if to prepay our suffering in installments. And then we wonder why happiness feels so elusive, why our days feel heavy even when life is objectively fine.
Matt Tenney's book, The Magic of Mindful Self-Awareness, is not another lecture about positive thinking or a rigid program for self-discipline. It is, instead, a quiet revelation.
Tenney, who has traveled the unusual path from prisoner to monk to teacher, suggests something deceptively simple: that happiness is less about fixing the external world and more about noticing the internal one.
What makes his work resonate is not its novelty—after all, philosophers and sages have spoken about mindful awareness for centuries—but his ability to present it as if he has handed you a tool you forgot you already owned.
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After reading The Magic of Mindful Self-Awareness -How to Stop Overthinking,Clear Your Mind,and Be Happy by Matt Tenney: 9 Lessons I Learned About Overthinking, Clarity, and Happiness
After reading The Magic of Mindful Self-Awareness -How to Stop Overthinking,Clear Your Mind,and Be Happy by Matt Tenney: 9 Lessons I Learned About Overthinking, Clarity, and Happiness
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| BN ID: | 2940184479231 |
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| Publisher: | Digital Products Management |
| Publication date: | 08/30/2025 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 303 KB |
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