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The how of happiness : a new approach to getting the life you want
Title:
The how of happiness : a new approach to getting the life you want
Author:
Lyubomirsky, Sonja.
ISBN:
9780143114956
Publication Information:
New York : Penguin Books, 2008.
Physical Description:
366 p. : ill. ; 22 cm
Abstract:
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.

How to attain real and lasting happiness -- Happiness activities -- Secrets to abiding happiness.
Subject:
Happiness.
Self-actualization (Psychology)
Summary:
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.

How to attain real and lasting happiness -- Happiness activities -- Secrets to abiding happiness.