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The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want by Sonja Lyubomirsky

The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want Sonja Lyubomirsky ebook
ISBN: 9780143114956
Page: 384
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Format: pdf

Your the director of your life. Powerful than the big events we think will wow us," says Sonja Lyubomirsky, Ph.D., a professor at the University of California at Riverside and author of The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want. Give the Personal growth advocates assume you want to avoid those bad days whereas I don't think that's possible or necessary. Consumerism is a restless spirit, constantly in search of something new. But of course as the lives of Pete, Roger, Don, Peggy and the rest of the Sterling-Cooper-Draper-Pryce gang amply demonstrate, abiding happiness remains elusive; in life, the thing you want most is the one thing you can't have. You can point your camera at more pain, or more pleasure. You see life getting better and better and better. The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want. Principle #7: Point Your Camera on Purpose. Those should all sound familiar; people tell you those things all the time and they may or may not work for you. A new approach to getting the life you want. Point your camera at the things that you want more of. There's a reason lottery winners and paraplegics eventually revert back to their initial level of happiness. They adapt to their new way of life. But that's a far cry from 100%, says Sonja Lyubomirsky, PhD, author of The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want and professor of psychology at the University of California, Riverside. My approach is really a mash up of the things I've learned from the school of hard knocks, and from brilliant happiness scientists like Dan Gilbert, Martin Seligman, and Sonja Lyubomirsky, as well as from the happiness artists . Happiness unpacked: Positive emotions increase life satisfaction by building resilience. I got to know Professor Sonja Lyubomirsky through her work, which includes the fascinating book The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want (just the kind of book I love), and then I met her in Also, as my new book, The Myths of Happiness, describes in detail, one of the biggest obstacles to staying happy is hedonic adaptation – the phenomenon that human beings are remarkably good at getting used to positive changes in their lives. What does In fact, just the moment that you get what (or who) you want – and here the obvious example is Don's checkered relationship history – entropy sets in. Try exercising, meditation, setting goals, spending time with friends and family, trying new things.