Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment | 
Positive Psychology was the popular theme of the early 21st century
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Three of my favorite positive psychology books
Day 5: #happiness
A few years ago, I realized I needed to adjust my view of happiness. Striving for a happy life can be incredibly fulfilling; but striving to be happy all the time is unrealistic.
I am grateful that I have been able to navigate through the difficult times and come out stronger, hope that I will continue to be able to do so, and consider my life filled with meaning and contentment. #gratitude30
Dr Seligman has been dubbed the founder of Positive Psychology. This is a wonderful book and has been helpful to me.
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My reading will probably be taking a different direction over the next few months! I‘m contemplating a return to work; but, as much as I used to love working in refugee resettlement, I am considering a career change into life coaching, with a focus on social change and working with social justice orgs and activists.
To this end, I have started a class on Positive Psychology, a branch that was just forming when I was a psych major! #bookmail
1. A trip to upper Mississippi River for autumn 🍂🍁 and its blazing colour
2. A Woman for All Seasons 🤗
3. WWII
4. Shame prevents me from divulging- no really not that much...!!
5. UK, Paris, the Dakotas, Atlantic coast
6. The Talking, cackling and people on their phones broadcasting TMI to the world
7. Approximately 40 on shelf; probably 40 Kindle, and innumerable samples
Depression is now 10 times as prevalent as it was in 1960, and it strikes at a much younger age. The mean age of a person‘s first episode 40 years ago was 29.5, while today it is 14.5 years. This is a paradox, since every objective indicator of well-being—purchasing power, education, availability of music, and nutrition—has been going north, while every indicator of subjective well-being has been going south. How is this epidemic to be explained?
Authentic happiness derives from raising the bar for yourself, not rating yourself against others.
