Authentic Happiness
Using the New Positive Psychology to Realise your Potential for Lasting Fulfilment
Published on 11. January 2011
336 pages
978-1-85788-413-5 (ISBN)
Description
An international bestseller, Authentic Happiness launched the revolutionary new science of Positive Psychology and sparked a coast-to-coast debate on the nature of real happiness.
"A practical map for a flourishing life." Daniel Goleman, bestselling author of Emotional Intelligence
In this groundbreaking, heart-lifting book, internationally esteemed psychologist and bestselling author, Martin Seligman, shows that happiness is not the result of good genes or luck - it can be learned and cultivated.
Real, lasting happiness comes from focusing on your personal strengths rather than weaknesses and working with them to improve all aspects of your life. Using practical exercises and brief tests he shows you how to identify your greatest strengths and virtues and use them in ways you haven't yet considered.
By calling on your signature strengths, you will not only develop natural buffers against misfortune and negative emotion, but also improve the world around you - at work, in love and in raising children - achieving new and sustainable contentment, joy and meaning.
Accessible and proven, Authentic Happiness is the most powerful work of popular psychology in years.
"A practical map for a flourishing life." Daniel Goleman, bestselling author of Emotional Intelligence
In this groundbreaking, heart-lifting book, internationally esteemed psychologist and bestselling author, Martin Seligman, shows that happiness is not the result of good genes or luck - it can be learned and cultivated.
Real, lasting happiness comes from focusing on your personal strengths rather than weaknesses and working with them to improve all aspects of your life. Using practical exercises and brief tests he shows you how to identify your greatest strengths and virtues and use them in ways you haven't yet considered.
By calling on your signature strengths, you will not only develop natural buffers against misfortune and negative emotion, but also improve the world around you - at work, in love and in raising children - achieving new and sustainable contentment, joy and meaning.
Accessible and proven, Authentic Happiness is the most powerful work of popular psychology in years.
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Edition
Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Murray Press
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Digital original
File size
2,23 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-85788-413-5 (9781857884135)
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Martin Seligman
Authentic Happiness
Using the New Positive Psychology to Realise your Potential for Lasting Fulfilment
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02/2017
Nicholas Brealey Publishing
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Martin Seligman PhD, Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania and Director of the Positive Psychology Network, gave the Centennial address to the British Psychological Society in 2002 and is an Honorary Professor at the University of Cardiff. A former President of the American Psychological Association, he has written over 20 books including the bestselling Learned Optimism and Authentic Happiness and in 2009 was awarded the British Academy's Wiley Prize in Psychology. He is widely considered the pre-eminent expert on applied psychology in the world.
