The Ten Worlds, Alex Lickerman, MD
The Ten Worlds, Alex Lickerman, MD
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The Ten Worlds
The New Psychology of Happiness

Author: Alex Lickerman, MD, Ash ElDifrawi, PsyD

Narrator: Adam Lofbomm

Unabridged: 11 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/02/2018

Synopsis

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 Alex Lickerman, MD

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mary on August 29, 2018

The Ten Worlds: The New Psychology of Happiness, is a very interesting book focusing in the science and psychology of happiness and the absence of happiness (Anger, depression, lethargy, etc) The authors suggest that we're not happy because of our core believes about what happiness means to us, which......more

Goodreads review by James on December 24, 2019

I liked that this book made me think differently about how people tend to think of happiness as a binary setting with specific criteria. In the case of the book, they provide both anecdotal evidence and explanation (through discourse between the 'author' and his colleague, Ash) about the stages (worl......more

Goodreads review by Stephanie on November 04, 2019

Interesting real-life application of the Buddhist philosophy of ten worlds. Most of the book is presented as a dialogue, which can get irritating and feel unrealistic at times, but the points are made clearly and are thoroughly exemplified. The last chapter strayed from the Socratic form, to its gre......more

Goodreads review by Yukie on June 12, 2022

I incredibly wonder why this book has neither become a bestseller nor widely available. I've been a self-help and happiness books loyal reader for more than ten years, yet The Ten Worlds is the very best at changing my perspectives and therefore, my everyday mood too. The two authors obviously have......more

Goodreads review by Bryn on December 31, 2020

This book felt like a cheap version of Socratic dialogues without intellectual rigor in either the dialogue itself or the clearly embellished anecdotes leading up to them. However, as I finished the book, I found that there was a lot of truth in focusing on which "world(s)" may be hindering our happ......more

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