The Playful Mind by Paul Daniel (Self - published)

The author introduces us to the playful mind,  which is the childhood state of mind. 

The playful mind is the optimal mental state for extracting happiness and satisfaction from each moment. It is through the playful mind that we experience happiness and satisfaction. As we got older, our ability to generate this playful mind became interfered with.

Paul Daniel shows us the sources of interference and the tools how to remove them so that it will become much easier for us to generate this playful mentality, even as an adult. Following this, it will be much easier for us to be consistently happy and satisfied. With the interference gone, we automatically become mentally receptive to engaging with the present. We reset our mental state to "original factory settings" and bring the playful mind to almost everything we do, even so-called routine and mundane things.

Our goal is to make our model of reality as consistent with our observed experiences as possible and extend the playful mind towards as many activities as possible.

It does not matter how many external things we attain; it doesn’t matter how rich and successful we are if we do not have a mentality that allows us to enjoy them.

When we change our internal mental state, we will find that we can be very happy without many of these external things. inside our mind is a doorway to happiness and a much larger range of satisfying feelings.

A useful book on how to reach internal happiness and satisfaction, be more playful, and above all know that only ourselves can experience this journey to a more mindful and beautiful life.

The content of the book is as I already said, useful and interesting, but the writing style itself is (again in my opinion) just dry and "non-reader friendly".

2,5/5