"This book will help you flourish." With this unprecedented promise, internationally esteemed psychologist Martin Seligman begins -- Flourish With interactive exercises to help readers explore their own attitudes and aims, Flourish Authentic Happiness. From the bestselling auth…
"This book will help you flourish." With this unprecedented promise, internationally esteemed psychologist Martin Seligman begins Flourish, his first book in ten years---and the first to present his dynamic new concept of what well-being really is. Traditionally, the goal of psy…
In this book the author presents his concept of what well-being really is and explains the four pillars of well-being (meaning and purpose, positive emotions, relationships, and accomplishment), placing emphasis on meaning and purpose as the most important for achieving a life o…
[This book] proposes a new way of understanding the roots of human motivation ... [It] describes how our brains actually crave just the kind of challenge and adversity that we tend to regard as satisfaction's opposite.-Dust jacket.
Draws on such fields as neuoscience, economics, and evolutionary psychology to address the question of how to find a more satisfying way to live, arguing that the key to satisfaction lies in the complexity and challenge in one's life.
"Opening with a revealing description of the brain's basic appetite for information, Satisfaction proposes a new way of understanding the roots of human motivation. While most of us assume that we more or less live by the "pleasure principle" (the more pleasure, the better), Ber…
Draws on such fields as neuoscience, economics, and evolutionary psychology to address the question of how to find a more satisfying way to live, arguing that the key to satisfaction lies in the complexity and challenge in one's life.
Covers all aspects of teaching, learning and school leadership, and discusses what research has revealed about what really works and adds value to Australian schools in the 21st century. [Back cover, ed].
Far from killing cats, curiosity breathes new life into almost everything it touches. Here, Dr. Todd Kashdan offers a profound new message missing from so many books on happiness: the greatest opportunities for joy, purpose, and personal growth don't, in fact, happen when we're …
Talane Miedaner has gained international prominence in the cutting-edge field of personal coaching by guiding hundreds of clients to happier, more financially secure lives. Now she shares her secrets for restructuring your life to achieve your goals -- both personally and profes…
