Secrets You Keep from Yourself: How to Stop Sabotaging Your Happiness

by Dan Neuharth

This insightful guide is an exploration of how and why people undermine their happiness and lose touch with their "best" selves. Counterproductive self-deception, a universal behavior, is a habit that can be broken. People keep themselves from having what they want, a phenomenon known as "self-handicapping."

Offering poignant examples, innovative tools, and a compassionate perspective, Dan Neuharth reveals how to vanquish self-imposed roadblocks and avoid unnecessary losses in order to embrace and share the best in oneself.

Genres: Self Help, Psychology, Nonfiction, Personal Development

320 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2004

Reviews

[Thao Phuong]

A very good analysis of human emotions with case studies that readers can relate. What I love about this book is that Dan did not teach you to eliminate fear and unhappiness by reasoning your feelings out, but to embrace all feelings as a natural part of the human experiences. Notwithstanding Dan presented clear strategy for self-enhancement. "Accepting yourself as you are but do not stop striving to become a better version of yourself"

[Géraldine]

Ne pas rire.. Ce n'est pas SI mal que ça ;) Mais je n'irai pas jusqu'à lui mettre une étoile ;). Étrange livre quand même.. On écrive d'étranges choses dans les années '80 !

[Brenda]

I wasn't able to get into this book and got distracted by other, more appealing titles. maybe I'll get back to it someday, maybe not.

[Michael]

I really enjoyed the book. He understands how we operate. I’ll be reading it again.

[Rick]

Good self help book. Take it with a grain of salt. It is hard to take advice from books such as these because we all see the world differently, therefore it is difficult at times to fully follow or accept such advice and others personal life experiences.

[Jeff]

stop thinking start living nice

[Ruth]

This book relies on too many cutesy labels in explaining the problem and not enough actual nuts and bolts advise in dealing with the problem.