• Habits of a Happy Brain

  • Retrain Your Brain to Boost Your Serotonin, Dopamine, Oxytocin, & Endorphin Levels
  • By: Loretta Graziano Breuning PhD
  • Narrated by: Amanda Carlin
  • Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (367 ratings)

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Habits of a Happy Brain

By: Loretta Graziano Breuning PhD
Narrated by: Amanda Carlin
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Publisher's summary

A revolutionary approach to enhancing your happiness level!

Get ready to boost your happiness in just 45 days! Habits of a Happy Brain shows you how to retrain your brain to turn on the chemicals that make you happy. Each minute offers simple activities that help you understand the roles of your "happy chemicals" - serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin, and endorphin. You'll also learn how to build new habits by rerouting the electricity in your brain to flow down a new pathway, making it even easier to trigger these happy chemicals and increase feelings of satisfaction when you need them most. Filled with dozens of exercises that will help your reprogram your brain, Habits of a Happy Brain shows you how to live a happier, healthier life!

©2017 Loretta Graziano Breuning (P)2017 Simon & Schuster, Inc.

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Could not make it through

The voice reading the book is robotic, if all audiobooks were like this I won't ever buy another. What a waste of money!

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This is read by a machine - again

So far two audiobooks I bought were read by one very prolific "Amanda Carlin" who reads an awful lot like a rather unimpressive text-to-speech engine. I pay extra to get an audiobook to get the sensibility of a human reader, not the flatness of a machine. I could not get very far in the book as the whole thing was so grating.

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Insightful content. However the reader sounds mechanical

Greta descriptions of how the “happy neurochemicals” affect our everyday behavior. And also the unhappy chemicals (eg cortisol) and the constant unconscious grappling between the two. The only downside to this book was the performance; the pace is too slow and the reader sounds like a slow robotic voice over. the only way to make it tolerable so that it matches human conversation is to bump it at 1.25 speed. This makes the reader sound even more like Siri But the content is so engaging you get used to it.

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I could not finish listening to this book as it was too difficult to listen to the voice and lack of professional presentation in the audio experience

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Content good, narration... ugh.

While I appreciate that the narration doesn’t come across with know it all superiority, it comes across like a disembodied first generation text to speech algorithm. I think I’ll get the kindle version and be sure to avoid readings by this narrator in the future. I’m sure she(it?) is a fine person(robot?), just not for me.

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Loved the content not the narrator

The narrator sounds like it’s a computer speaking.
Makes it very hard to enjoy the book. I appreciate the information and love learning about the brain, but it needs to come to life with a better narrator.

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Awesome information!

I really enjoyed the information! My key takeaway from the book, on my 1st listen, is: repetition of healthy and happier habits will help you create new neural pathways, aka synapses, in your brain for the survival of your genes and your life.

After reading the reviews, before I bought the book, I understood I might need to speed up the rate. My most comfortable listening speed was 1.20. Because the reader read so slow, I would feel sleepy while driving after long listening, so speeding up the reading rate really helped.

The book itself is worth listening to if you KNOW FOR SURE that you really want to read it. And I REALLY was curious about this book, and it's worth it!

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Sounded like a robot reading the entire time.

I wanted to get into the material and believe it would have been useful, but the reader made it impossible. It was very robotic and jumpy.

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The voice...geez

I enjoy audio books generally. However, this reader sounds artificial. It does not make good listening.
Truly regretful. I will have to purchase the Kindle version.

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Great book for curious minds

I almost got carried away with the criticisms about the narrator, but I am glad that my curiosity always shows that it is better to make your own judgments. The voice of the narrator is not a problem (except if you can't accept that the world is not always going to fit all your whimsical expectations, no matter how much money you invest in it) and you can forget about it because the text is engaging. The author explains in detail how the brain and its chemicals provide us with perspectives, habits and behaviors with which we create the pathways to survive and face the world. These fundamentals can be hacked and we can alter those behaviors that make us unhappy by using actions that release the chemicals that produce happiness and that with a regular and conscious use will give us the benefits we seek in the long term.

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