The How of Happiness

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• Are You Happy?

  Chances are if someone were to ask you, right now, if you were happy, you’d say you were. 1 Claiming that you’re happy—that is, to an interviewer who is asking you to rate your “life satisfaction” on a scale from zero to ten—appears to be nearly univ ... (read full critics)

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  The best book I have read on positive psychology (out of 3). The major strengths of this book is that it is very empirical, and that there are plenty of practical happiness-increasing exercises to choose from.</p><p>It's pretty interesting to find out that virtually all of the things tha ... (continue)

  The best book I have read on positive psychology (out of 3). The major strengths of this book is that it is very empirical, and that there are plenty of practical happiness-increasing exercises to choose from.</p><p>It's pretty interesting to find out that virtually all of the things that we think will make us happy actually have little to no effect in the long run. The largest determinant of happiness (besides genetics) is how one looks at the world and deals with the events that occur in their life.

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• English Books
• Others 384 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0143114956
• ISBN-13: 9780143114956
• Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
• Pub date: Dec 30, 2008
• Also available as: Hardcover and Audio CD

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