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Nature 441, 29-30 (4 May 2006) | doi:10.1038/441029a; Published online 3 May 2006
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BOOK REVIEWED-The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
by Jonathan Haidt
Basic Books: 2005. 320 pp. £34.95, £15.50. To be published in Britain in August by William Heinemann.
There is a striking similarity between the advice of the ancients on how to live, and the thoughts of modern psychologists on how to have a healthy mind. The Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius' dictum that life "is but what you deem it" resonates with modern research on the importance of thinking styles in coping with stress and adversity; and the Buddha's teachings on non-attachment seem to prefigure the ideas of modern cognitive therapies.
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