MeWeRTH’s Reading for Well-Being Community Book Club

    Professor Pozzulo’s Pick (Nov, 2024) Happy Money: The Science of Happier Spending by Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton (2013, published by Simon & Schuster ) My Take:   Perhaps you’ve heard the adage, “money can’t buy happiness”? In Happy Money: The Science of Happier Spending, Dunn and Norton (2013) explore whether spending money differently can impact happiness and well-being. Can people spend their money in “happier” ways? The short answer is…Yes! I was hesitant to make this book my pick because so many are finding it difficult to cover the essentials, such as housing and food, let alone have money for discretionary spending. By the time I finished the book, I changed my mind. The connection between well-being and money isn’t necessarily about having more money (although let’s face it, there are some advantages to having more money and everyone needs a certain amount of money to live), it is about how you spend the money you have. Let’s say you have $5 for discretionary spen

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    We’re giving away a copy of October's  Professor Pozzulo’s Pick.  Click on  read more   then  click here to enter to win  or copy the web address and search it in your browser:  https://carleton.ca/mental-health/october-giveaway/

  Professor Pozzulo’s Pick (October, 2024) Chatter: The voice in our head, why it matters, and how to harness it by Ethan Kross, (2021, published by Crown ) My Take:   Anyone who has found themselves lying awake in the middle of the night with endless thoughts of potential doom can likely relate to this book. I could! In Chatter: The voice in our head, why it matters, and how to harness it , Kross (2021) starts off by des cribing the negative loop in his head after receiving a threatening letter in his university mailbox. I don’t think you need to be a faculty member to appreciate the negative emotional response this type of letter would evoke; you start to think what it might mean for you and your family ’s safety and well-being . Ironically, this is a topic Kross knows about; he researches how the conversations we have with ourselves can impact how we live our lives. Through his research, Kross tries to understand how these conversations can be channeled to make peopl

   We’re giving away a copy of September's  Professor Pozzulo’s Pick.  Click on  read more   then  click here to enter to win  or copy the web address and search it in your browser:  https://carleton.ca/mental-health/september-giveaway/

  Professor Pozzulo’s Pick (September, 2024) Happier Hour: How to Beat Disctraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most by Cassie Holmes, Ph.D. (2022; published by Gallery Books ) My Take: Feel like you never have the time to do the things you want and barely have time to do the things you need to do? In Happier Hour, How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most by Cassie Holmes, Ph.D. (2022, published by Gallery Books) the topic of “ time ” and how to use it to feel happier and more satisfied with life is explored.      Holmes starts with examining data from the American Time Use Survey to answer the question, “What is the relationship between the amount of discretionary time people have in their daily lives and their overall happiness? ”. Perhaps not surprisingly, having less than two hours of discretionary time a day is related to lower levels of happiness. – T hese results hold for Canadians as well !       Holmes notes that p eople