Authentic HappinessNicholas Brealey Publishing, 11/01/2011 - 338 من الصفحات In this important, entertaining book, one of the world's most celebrated psychologists, Martin Seligman, asserts that happiness can be learned and cultivated, and that everyone has the power to inject real joy into their lives. In Authentic Happiness, he describes the 24 strengths and virtues unique to the human psyche. Each of us, it seems, has at least five of these attributes, and can build on them to identify and develop to our maximum potential. By incorporating these strengths - which include kindness, originality, humour, optimism, curiosity, enthusiasm and generosity -- into our everyday lives, he tells us, we can reach new levels of optimism, happiness and productivity. Authentic Happiness provides a variety of tests and unique assessment tools to enable readers to discover and deploy those strengths at work, in love and in raising children. By accessing the very best in ourselves, we can improve the world around us and achieve new and lasting levels of authentic contentment and joy. |
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POSITIVE EMOTION | |
Positive Feeling and Positive Character | |
How Psychology Lost Its Way and I Found Mine | |
Why Bother to Be Happy? | |
Can You Make Yourself Lastingly Happier? | |
Satisfaction about the Past | |
Optimism about the Future | |
Your Signature Strengths | |
IN THE MANSIONS OF LIFE | |
Work and Personal Satisfaction | |
Love | |
Raising Children | |
Reprise and Summary | |
Meaning and Purpose | |
Terminology and Theory | |
Happiness in the Present | |
STRENGTH AND VIRTUE | |
Renewing Strength and Virtue | |
Acknowledgments | |
Endnotes Index | |
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