The how of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want

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Penguin, 2008 - 366 pages
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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Table des matières

Foreword
1
Is It Possible to Become Happier?
13
How Happy Are You and Why?
27
How to Find Happiness Activities That
69
Before You Begin
83
Investing in Social Connections
125
Managing Stress Hardship and Trauma
150
Living in the Present
180
The Five Hows Behind Sustainable Happiness
257
An Afterword
282
Additional Happiness Activities That May Fit
305
Notes
313
88
322
101
341
Index
359
112
360

Committing to Your Goals
205
Taking Care of Your Body and Your Soul
227

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Sonja Lyubomirsky, Ph.D., 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.

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