The Ten Worlds Lib/E: The New Psychology of Happiness

In this highly engaging and eminently practical book--told in the form of a Platonic dialogue recounting real-life patient experiences--Drs. Lickerman and ElDifrawi assert that the reason genuine, long-lasting happiness is so difficult to achieve and maintain is that we're profoundly confused not only about how to go about it but also about what happiness is. In identifying nine basic erroneous views we all have about what we need to be happy--views they term the core delusions--Lickerman and ElDifrawi show us that our happiness depends not on our external possessions or even on our experiences but rather on the beliefs we have that shape our most fundamental thinking. These beliefs, they argue, create ten internal life-conditions, or worlds, through which we continuously cycle and that determine how happy we're able to be. Drawing on the latest scientific research as well as Buddhist philosophy, Lickerman and ElDifrawi argue that once we learn to embrace a correct understanding of happiness, we can free ourselves from the suffering the core delusions cause us and enjoy the kind of happiness we all want, the kind found in the highest of the Ten Worlds, the world of Enlightenment.

About the Author :
Alex Lickerman is a primary care physician, former assistant professor of medicine, former director of primary care, and former assistant vice president for Student Health and Counseling Services at the University of Chicago. He currently leads a direct primary care practice in Chicago called ImagineMD. Alex's first book, The Undefeated Mind: On the Science of Constructing an Indestructible Self, has received numerous favorable reviews from many sources, including Publishers Weekly. A noted speaker and media expert, he has been quoted in Crain's Chicago Business, Playboy, the Chicago Tribune, Men's Health, the New York Times, and TIME, and has had articles appear in Psychology Today, Crain's Chicago Business, USA Today, Slate, the Huffington Post, Counselor Magazine, and Medicine on the Midway. He's also been a guest on NPR's On Point. He's also written a television pilot called Sessions that was optioned by DreamWorks Television, as well as several movie screenplays, including an adaptation of Milton's Paradise Lost. Ash ElDifrawi, PsyD, has a reputation as a thought leader in clinical, social, and consumer psychology. He's been featured in the Economist, Forbes, Bloomberg, Fast Money, WSJ, NY Times, CNBC, Mashable, Crain's, Marketwatch, and Re/Code. Dr. ElDifrawi is currently the Chief Marketing and Customer Experience Officer at Redbox. Ever since Adam Lofbomm pressed Record on his Fisher-Price recorder back in 1984, he's been bringing worlds to life in words. Over the years, his passion for language inspired him to read broadly, write extensively, speak publicly, perform on-stage and on-camera, but when he stepped into the vocal booth for his first narration job in Seoul, Korea, back in 2006, all those many pieces just clicked into place. He realized then and there that voice acting was what he was made to do. Over the last eleven years working as a professional voice-over actor, Adam has had the great fortune to collaborate with some of the best publishers and organizations in the world. Whether or not Malcolm Gladwell was right when he said that ten-thousand hours will make you world-class at something, Adam did stop counting after he surpassed that milestone in 2016.