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Authentic Happiness

Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment

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Authentic Happiness

Written by: Martin E.P. Seligman Ph.D.
Narrated by: John Dossett
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 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 best-selling 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: kindness, originality, humor, optimism, and generosity. By frequently calling upon their "signature strengths" in all the crucial realms of life, listeners 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 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, relationships, and careers.

The life-changing lesson of Authentic 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.

©2002 Martin Seligman (P)2002 Simon and Schuster Inc. All rights reserved. Personal Success Psychology Mental Health Happiness Witty

What the critics say

"A bold new plan for taking control of your life and finding lasting happiness." (Elle)
"This smooth abridgment, read perfectly by John Dossett, will win new respect for the behavioral sciences, which have taken a beating during the recent resurgence of the spiritual disciplines." (AudioFile)

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Listened to it twice already

I have gotten so much out of this book and will most likely listen a third time as I find each time I listen something new resonates with me or it solidifies the learning. I’m a strong proponent of VIA character strengths and this book helps with how to apply them, as well as lots of other tips for relationship building in all aspects of life.

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