false <![CDATA[Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167917165m/28012.jpg 28012 8 In this national bestseller -- Martin Seligman's most stimulating, persuasive book to date -- the acclaimed author of <I>Learned Optimism</I> introduces yet another revolutionary idea. Drawing on groundbreaking scientific 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 and mental health. Happiness, studies show, is not the result of good genes or luck. It can be cultivated by identifying and nurturing traits that we already possess -- including kindness, originality, humor, optimism, and generosity.<P>Seligman provides the tools you need in order to ascertain your most positive traits or strengths. Then he explains how, by frequently calling upon these "signature strengths" in all the crucial realms of life -- health, relationships, career -- you will not only develop natural buffers against misfortune and negative emotion, but also achieve new and sustainable levels of authentic contentment, gratification, and meaning.<P> 1930010 2002 Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment total:267|5:64|4:112|3:67|2:19|1:5| 267 1012 526 69 28012 0743222989 9780743222983 240 65 Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment 3.79 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167917165m/28012.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28012.Authentic_Happiness_Using_the_New_Positive_Psychology_to_Realize_Your_Potential_for_Lasting_Fulfillment 5 1 false Sun May 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Feb 13 16:18:20 -0800 2009 Wed May 06 08:37:09 -0700 2009 more...]]> 28012 0743222989 9780743222983 240 65 Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment 3.79 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167917165m/28012.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28012.Authentic_Happiness_Using_the_New_Positive_Psychology_to_Realize_Your_Potential_for_Lasting_Fulfillment 3 0 false Tue Dec 30 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 09 22:09:43 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 30 22:56:26 -0800 2008
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Write down 5 things you are grateful for each day.
Forgive others by empathizing


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