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Life on Purpose
- How Living for What Matters Most Changes Everything
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
- Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins
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Life on Purpose
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Publisher's Summary
A pioneer in the field of behavioral science delivers a groundbreaking work that shows how finding your purpose in life leads to better health and overall happiness.
Your life is a boat. You need a rudder. But it doesn't matter how much wind is in your sails if you're not steering toward a harbor - an ultimate purpose in your life.
While the greatest philosophers have pondered purpose for centuries, today it has been shown to have a concrete impact on our health. Recent studies into Alzheimer's, heart disease, stroke, depression, functional brain imaging, and measurement of DNA repair are shedding new light on how and why purpose benefits our lives.
Going beyond the fads, opinions, and false hopes of "expert" self-help books, Life on Purpose explores the incredible connection between purposeful living and the latest scientific evidence on quality of life and longevity. Drawing on ancient and modern philosophy, literature, psychology, evolutionary biology, genetics, and neuroscience as well as his experience in public health research, Dr. Vic Strecher reveals the elements necessary for a purposeful life and how to acquire them and outlines an elegant strategy for improving energy, willpower, and long-term happiness and well-being. He integrates these core themes into his own personal story - a tragedy that led him to reconsider his own life - and how a deeper understanding of purposeful living helped him not only to survive but to thrive.
Illuminating, accessible, and authentically grounded in real people's experiences, Life on Purpose is essential for everyone seeking lasting improvement in their lives.
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- Anonymous
- 01-06-2017
Excellent Audio book
Life on purpose has truly motivated me to examine my life. Excellent to listen!!!
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- VP
- 25-09-2017
Better than most self-help books!
I’ve read a lot of self-help books, only to discover (maybe temporary) that there is no self (Waking Up by S. Harris);
Yet this one is a well structured, back to basics, and with a scientific flavour type of book.
Recommend it!
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- Magic
- 31-08-2016
Soul piercing!
Words in this book touch you deep, change will eminent be after reading it. At times you feel that knot in the neck as the agony of acceptance towards life viscitudes unfold. Life as a purpose is a must and here be a good starting point. Read it you will benefit from it. Marvin
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- Courtney
- 14-04-2017
A great reminder
First half of book was excellent and the second half was good but mainly common sense. Highly recommend the book to reflect on your life and outlive your life more.
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- Amazon Customer
- 17-11-2017
A useful guide
I enjoyed the book as the story provides a template to use to create a purpose and the narrator seemed to be passionate about the subject matter. Well worth the read.
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- Dale
- 13-09-2016
best book I've ever read
from the opening chapter I was hooked. I've never felt so much emotion from a book before. the content is a must read. for everyone in every wall of life. im so happy I found this book.
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- Nadia
- 27-09-2020
Highly recommended
Your life will change for the better, after you find your purpose.
I’m forever grateful to Victor J. Strecher for writing this book. Now more than ever we need people live their lives on purpose.
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- S. O'Leary-Colliver
- 09-11-2017
love this book
loved it from start to finish. the right amount of depth and humour. thought and action provoking
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- RossRoss
- 19-05-2016
sensational
R C Bray is a gifted orator. couple this gift with a story and message so powerful that it brought me to tears. read this book and then read it again. i challenge you not to be ever more inspired after.
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- Bill Ruys
- 13-01-2019
Really struggled with narrator's delivery
The gist of this book is that having a self transcending purpose in life is the key to happiness. It suggests that diet, meditation exercise, etc, are key parts of the puzzle. some bits of the message resonated with me, but at other times, I felt I was being preached to.
I found the narrator's "in a world..." vocal style tiresome and annoying, which made getting through the book a bit of a chore. Maybe an interesting choice for a movie trailer or a 30 second commercial, but not really suited to an audio book.
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