Description
Learn how to achieve the happiness you deserve "A guide to sustaining your newfound contentment." --Psychology Today "Lyubomirsky's central point is clear: a significant portion of what is called happiness . . . is up for grabs. Taking some pages out of the positive psychology playbook, she coaches readers on how to snag it." --The New York Review of Books
You see here a different kind of happiness book. The How of Happiness is a comprehensive guide to understanding the elements of happiness based on years of groundbreaking scientific research. It is also a practical, empowering, and easy-to-follow workbook, incorporating happiness strategies, excercises in new ways of thinking, and quizzes for understanding our individuality, all in an effort to help us realize our innate potential for joy and ways to sustain it in our lives. Drawing upon years of pioneering research with thousands of men and women, The How of Happiness is both a powerful contribution to the field of positive psychology and a gift to people who have sought to take their happiness into their own hands.
Author: Sonja Lyubomirsky
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 01/01/2009
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9780143114956
ISBN10: 0143114956
BISAC Categories:
- Self-Help | Personal Growth | Happiness
- Psychology | Emotions
- Psychology | Applied Psychology
You see here a different kind of happiness book. The How of Happiness is a comprehensive guide to understanding the elements of happiness based on years of groundbreaking scientific research. It is also a practical, empowering, and easy-to-follow workbook, incorporating happiness strategies, excercises in new ways of thinking, and quizzes for understanding our individuality, all in an effort to help us realize our innate potential for joy and ways to sustain it in our lives. Drawing upon years of pioneering research with thousands of men and women, The How of Happiness is both a powerful contribution to the field of positive psychology and a gift to people who have sought to take their happiness into their own hands.
Author: Sonja Lyubomirsky
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 01/01/2009
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9780143114956
ISBN10: 0143114956
BISAC Categories:
- Self-Help | Personal Growth | Happiness
- Psychology | Emotions
- Psychology | Applied Psychology
About the Author
Sonja Lyubomirsky is professor of psychology at the University of California, Riverside. She received her B.A. from Harvard University and her Ph.D. in social psychology from Stanford University. Lyubomirsky and her research have been the recipients of many honors, including the 2002 Templeton Positive Psychology Prize and a multiyear grant from the National Institute of Mental Health. She lives in Santa Monica, California, with her family. Her second book, The Myths of Happiness, is now available in paperback.