Download Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment AudioBook Free
Over ten years ago, Martin Seligman charted a fresh approach to living with "flexible optimism." Now, in his most stimulating and persuasive book at this point, the bestselling writer of Learned Optimism introduces the revolutionary, scientifically based idea of "Positive Psychology." Positive Psychology targets strengths rather than weaknesses, asserting that happiness is not the consequence of good genes or luck. Seligman teaches readers that happiness can be cultivated by identifying and using lots of the strengths and traits that they already have -- including kindness, originality, humor, optimism, and generosity. By frequently calling after their "signature strengths" in all the crucial realms of life, readers will not only develop natural buffers against misfortune and the knowledge of negative emotion, they'll 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 from its narrow-minded focus on pathology, 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 and wellness, relationships, and careers.
Seligman supplies the Signature Strengths Survey along with a variety of brief tests you can use to measure how much positive emotion readers experience, to be able to help determine what their highest strengths are. The life-changing lesson of Authentic Happiness is that by identifying the very best in ourselves, we can enhance the world all around us and achieve new and sustainable levels of authentic contentment, gratification, and meaning.
