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Authentic
Happiness
Using the
New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting
Fulfillment
by Martin E.P. Seligman, Ph.D.
Over a
decade ago, Martin Seligman charted a new approach to living with
"flexible optimism." Now, in his most stimulating and
persuasive book to date, the bestselling author of Learned Optimism
introduces the revolutionary, scientifically based idea of "Positive
Psychology." Positive Psychology focuses on strengths rather
than weaknesses, asserting that happiness is not the result of
good genes or luck. Seligman teaches readers that happiness can
be cultivated by identifying and using many of the strengths and
traits that they already possess — including kindness, originalty,
humor, optimism , and generosity.
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By
frequently calling upon their "signature strengths" in
all the crucial realms of life, readers will not only develop natural
buffers against misfortune and the experience of negative emotion,
they will move their lives up to a new, more positive plane.
Drawing on groundbreaking psychological research, Seligman shows
how Positive Psychology is shifting the profession's paradigm away
from its narrow-minded focus on pathogy, victimology, and mental
illness to positive emotion, virtue and strength, and positive institutions.
Our signature strengths can be nurtured throughout our lives, with
benefits to our health, relationships, and careers.
Seligman provides the Signature Strengths Survey along with a variety
of brief tests that can be used to measure how much positive emotion
readers experience, in order to help determine what their highest
strengths are. The life-changing lesson of Authenic Happiness is
that by identifying the very best in ourselves, we can improve the
world around us and achieve new and sustainable levels of authentic
contentment, gratification and meaning.
To
order email us at info@mandalabookshop.com
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