Happier: Learn the Secrets to Daily Joy and Lasting Fulfillment | 
 enlarge | Author: Tal Ben-shahar
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
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Pages: 224
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ISBN: 0071492399
Dewey Decimal Number: 158
EAN: 9780071492393
Publication Date: May 10, 2007
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Can You Learn to Be Happy? YES . . . according to the teacher of Harvard University’s most popular and life-changing course. One out of every five Harvard students has lined up to hear Tal Ben-Shahar’s insightful and inspiring lectures on that ever-elusive state: HAPPINESS. HOW?
Grounded in the revolutionary “positive psychology” movement, Ben-Shahar ingeniously combines scientific studies, scholarly research, self-help advice, and spiritual enlightenment. He weaves them together into a set of principles that you can apply to your daily life. Once you open your heart and mind to Happier ’s thoughts, you will feel more fulfilled, more connected . . . and, yes, HAPPIER. “Dr. Ben-Shahar, one of the most popular teachers in Harvard’s recent history, has written a personal, informed, and highly enjoyable primer on how to become happier. It would be wise to take his advice.”
--Ellen J. Langer, author of Mindfulness and On Becoming an Artist “This fine book shimmers with a rare brand of good sense that is imbedded in scientific knowledge about how to increase happiness. It is easy to see how this is the backbone of the most popular course at Harvard today."
--Martin E. P. Seligman, author of Authentic Happiness
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 Better than the rest of the self-help books June 1, 2007
M. Benson (USA)
102 out of 109 found this review helpful
This book approaches happiness with foundations based on research, peer-reviewed psychology publications, and observational logic. It is very well-written and uplifting, without being simplistic. It uses concepts from Csikszentmihalyi , Seligman, Jung, Campbell, Goleman, Branden, Gardner, Persig, and Kahneman, among others. The sections on happiness in education and in the workplace were especially helpful to me and made me realize I was focusing too much on financial rewards for happiness. This book gave me more focus and peace.
Life is A Process, Not An End. May 25, 2007
Radical Skeptic (Only In America, Land of Opportunity)
78 out of 83 found this review helpful
Life is a process, not an end. If you don't enjoy the process, you're going to hate the end.
I've read the ideas in this book many many times. Yet run through one more point of view is not a bad thing. Actually the author sums up the key to life well lived quite well in this thin book. Have meaningful goals, but enjoy the day to day process or realizing those goals. Appreciation is the key to life. The Psychic bank account. And then he applys them to school, to work, to love. And then he ends the book with meditations.
Give it a try. I'm sure you won't be disappointed.
The only criticism, yet not enough to substract a star, is that there are quite a few repeated ideas from his previous work. However, if you have a good idea, no harm in repeating that idea.
This book actually works July 16, 2007
N. Miller (Honolulu)
52 out of 56 found this review helpful
Even the bright yellow cover was carefully planned! This book may repeat what other books have said before, and it does it well. The author, Tal Ben-Shahar backs up his book with an abundance of research, surveys, science, logic, and well, PROOF. Of course, a lot of being happy starts from within ourselves, the motivation to want to be happier. Reading this book gave me a helpful kick-start.
Not only is this book an explanation of positive psychology, it also serves as a workbook. There are "Time-In" sections which ask you to reflect on certain areas of your life:
"Think back to a period or two in your life when you enjoyed both present and future benefits."
Also, there are more in-depth exercises included. It's great to see a self-help book with clear text, good editing, well mapped out and wonderfully organized. The wording is up to date, the references personal.
I can't think of anything negative about the book. Ben-Shahar appears to be very open-minded as he covers each section: relationships, love, work, etc. I finally felt good about myself (I'm 20 something, floundering about trying to find my way.) If you have a question about how to apply positive psychology to a given situation, it's pretty easy to get advice straight from the book after looking it up in the table of contents. (Fast advice!)
The principles in this book can not only be applied to all ages.
And it helps that they name-dropped Harvard. Well, Harvard is living up to expectations here. This book is very well written and sinks in. I highly recommend reading it more than once.
A needed addition to the positive psychology movement July 11, 2007
NHansen www.thehappinessblog.com
18 out of 20 found this review helpful
Shahar's recent text is incredible! This book follows the recent explosion in the positive psychology movement by employing a science-based approach to the concepts of happiness and well-being.
Shahar's text is very informative and, more especially, very perscriptive. If you have ever read a self-help text that left you without directions for direct application, this book can rescue you. Shahar took great effort to ensure that the reader would not miss the multitude of applications available from his book. Each chapter has instructions for the reader to apply what he has so wonderfully written.
The recent surge of positive psychology is largely credited to texts like this. This book is definitely going to join the canon of positive psychology texts because of its rational arguments, its plain and clear style, its scientifically based research, and its allotment of applications.
I recommend this book to anyone curious about positive psychology, happiness, or the pathway to better living. For you, this is money well spent and this book is certain to make the willing reader happier.
This is a must read for anyone searching for peace, happiness, and meaning.
www.thehappinessblog.com
A must-have for anyone interested in positive psychology July 5, 2007
D. Hensch (Virginia)
17 out of 17 found this review helpful
Tal Ben-Shahar has made positive psychology interesting and practical. I found the exercises (instead of time-outs, he calls each of them a "time in") to be simple, easy to implement and thought-provoking. His writing style is interesting, as well, and he relates this content to work, relationships, and other important areas of our lives. While the book's footnotes are full of great research papers, articles, and books, I did have trouble (just several times) understanding which statements were based on research and which were his professional opinion. But, that might be the price you pay for writing a book for the masses. Either way this is a great book which I plan to re-read many times.
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