The how of happiness a scientific approach to getting the life you want
Drawing on her own research with thousands of people, psychologist Lyubomirsky has pioneered a detailed yet easy-to-follow plan to increase happiness in our day-to-day lives--in the short and long term. This book that offers a guide to understanding what happiness is, and isn't, and what can be...
| Main Author: | Lyubomirsky, Sonja (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Penguin Press,
2008.
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| Summary: |
Drawing on her own research with thousands of people, psychologist Lyubomirsky has pioneered a detailed yet easy-to-follow plan to increase happiness in our day-to-day lives--in the short and long term. This book that offers a guide to understanding what happiness is, and isn't, and what can be done to bring us all closer to the happy life we envision. Using more than a dozen happiness-increasing strategies, it offers a new way to understand our innate potential for joy and happiness as well as our ability to sustain it in our lives. Lyubomirsky's "happiness strategies" introduce readers to the concept of intentional activities that they can use to achieve a happier life, including exercises in optimism and how best to savor life's pleasures in the here and now. She also helps readers understand the obstacles to happiness as well as how to harness individual strengths to overcome them.--From publisher description. |
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| Physical Description: |
366 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-357) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780143114956 0143114956 9781594201486 159420148X |
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