The How of Positive Change

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	• The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want Sonja Lyubomirsky Penguin Press HC, The, 2007 - 384 pages average customer review:based on 42 reviews view larger image
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The How of Positive Change

I have read many books on the subjects of psychology and cognitive therapy. "The How of Happiness" is the best one
not only because it combines the best research and ideas on these subjects, but also besause it makes you think.
This book gives you most of the tools you need to cope with the life's problems, change the way you think, "recreate" yourself. With the overwhelming number of self-help books on the market, this may be the only one you really need.
Michael Gutkin

The How of Happiness

This book has valueable information on how to learn to live a Happy Life. It is all based upon research and very informative.

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Amazing research

A very intersting research on the topic of "Happiness" , Lyubomirsky submit insights of 18 years studying happy people.
The results of her research parked into 12 key strategies for increasing happiness. More interestingly, she takes you into a quick reflective test to examine your "top 4" priorities among the 12 happiness strategies. I received my results with a sense of Awe ! it dawned on me where do i need to invest more to become happier , this was among the best insights i had.
Next, she reviews comprehensively mindsets & actions suggestions to put your top 4 into life.

I also recommend the book "Happier" by Tal Ben Shahar , who is the owner of a popular happiness course at Harvard. Ben Shahar's central theme for happiness is to search for actions that are rich in both meaning & pleasure. Although Lyubomirsky's work is more comprehensive , more structured & more scientifically tuned, still, Ben Shahar's work appears more friendly, shorter & able to derive subjective individualized happiness strategies from within based on reader's reflections where you end up having a practical plan of action that is , really uplifting.

Ben Shahar's work didn't address critically important topics like smiling, religious rituals , the negative effects of social comparisons & the happy sense of re-living past nostalgic moments, where Lyubomirsky's work didn't address the need to act "ritually" on happiness activities & didn't equally address the need to simplify actions & life.

By the end, i do recommend both books, both are based on scientific findings & they are complementary.

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profound and interesting

This is the trade book I have been waiting for on happiness. First, Sonja is one of the most exciting happiness researchers in the field. She does cutting edge work and is a leading authority on the topic. She not only describes her own interesting research but reviews a ton of work by others from around the world. Thus, this book is not about Sonja and that's a good thing (although I am sure her life story is interesting). Second, she does not write like a scientist. The writing style is fluid and playful. The people being interviewed provided great stories that breathe life into the content. Third, the book can be tailored to anyone. One of the best ideas in this book is the idea of fit between people and the exercises to be done to create happiness. There is a lot of work to support these ideas and its the first time I have seen these ideas in a book for the general public.

I have taught positive psychology courses for 7 years and have read dozens of books on the topic. This is one of the best out there and I strongly encourage anyone who is interested in understanding happiness or trying to be happy to get this book. If only all "self-help" books were written by the experts themselves and had evidence to support the ideas in them......

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Great!

About: Science-based ways of how to increase happiness

Review: Right off the bat, Lyubomirsky points out that we can only control 40% of our happiness (with half being genetic and 10% being environmental) but she suggest a bunch of techniques that have the backing of studies (which she cites) that have been shown to increase happiness. She notes that all techniques aren't for everyone so she encourages readers to choose the ones that fit their lifestyles. These techniques include practicing gratitude, forgiveness, goal setting, spirituality, exercise and living in the present (among other things). Ideas of of how to put these things to use are clearly spelled out. I really enjoyed this book, sources cited, great topic, well written, engaging, actually applicable to life.

Some random things I learned:

Marriage increases happiness for 2 years, then it returns to normal levels

Happiness also tends to eventually return to set point levels after both catastrophes and successes

People get happier with age

No one thing brings happiness

Overthinking (i.e. in times of anxiety, stress or insecurity) isn't good for you and just makes things worse

Helping others makes people happy

Hugging is good for happiness

The happier the person, the less he or she pays attention to what others around are doing

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