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When two distinguished professors get together to tell us one hundred
stories with the purpose of helping us to be happier, we should
pay attention. In addition to the scientific demonstration that
storytelling enhances behavior change, the authors make this change
occur through physical activity, which responds more effectively to
the challenges that the modern world poses to us.
Starting from the theoretical/scientific knowledge of the benefits
of physical activity for our happiness and choosing storytelling as a
privileged mechanism to instill this behavioral change, Filipe Rodrigues
and Pedro Morouço manage to take us on a journey down the
memory lane, in which we come across stories we heard as children,
transporting us to a time when it was so much easier to be physically
active.
At the end of the journey through the one hundred stories told in
this book, we arrive at a destination called happiness. The pedagogical
way in which each story is presented and the moral complement
to it, lead us to a world of fables and allegories, easily understood by
everyone and which compels us to have a more ethically responsible
and physically active attitude. By pointing happiness as a destiny,
Rodrigues and Morouço follow in the noble footsteps, for example,
of America´s founding fathers when, in the Declaration of Independence,
they state that “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that
all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator
with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty
and the pursuit of Happiness.”
When I accepted the honorable invitation to write these brief lines
that serve as a preface to the book “Storytelling for Behavior Change
in physical activity”, I thought, from what I knew about the quality
of the authors, that I would have the privilege of reading a magnificent
book before other people. Now, with the book already read, I
just want to share it and to advise everyone to read it, so that they can
have the same privilege that I had. The privilege was not having read
it before the others. The privilege, now in range of everybody, is only
to read the book. Believing that happiness is a feeling that grows as it
is shared, I hope that many can read this book so that we can all share
the happiness that a lifestyle that combines a more active physical
behavior and a more responsible moral attitude brings us.
To all who have read this preface to the end, I ask you to do yourselves
a favor: read and share this book and, therefore, just be happy!
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Escola Superior de Educação e Ciências Sociais - Politécnico de Leiria