01919cam a2200253 a 4500 TB12779 IN-BhIIT 20260218121343.0 100226s2007 nyunnn| z| | eng d 9780749952464 (pbk.) IN-BhIIT eng 158 LYU/H Lyubomirsky, Sonja. Author 27275 The how of happiness : a practical approach to getting the life you want / Sonja Lyubomirsky. Great Britain : Piatkus, 2010. 373 p. : ill. ; 18 cm. Presents a potentially life-changing approach to increasing happiness and fulfillment in everyday life. Redefines what happiness is and what it is not and introduces activities that emphasize staying active. Includes exercises in practicing optimism. Drawing on her own research with thousands of people, psychologist Lyubomirsky has pioneered a detailed yet easy-to-follow plan to increase happiness in our day-to-day lives--in the short and long term. This book that offers a guide to understanding what happiness is, and isn't, and what can be done to bring us all closer to the happy life we envision. Using more than a dozen happiness-increasing strategies, it offers a new way to understand our innate potential for joy and happiness as well as our ability to sustain it in our lives. Lyubomirsky's "happiness strategies" introduce readers to the concept of intentional activities that they can use to achieve a happier life, including exercises in optimism and how best to savor life's pleasures in the here and now. She also helps readers understand the obstacles to happiness as well as how to harness individual strengths to overcome them. Psychology  Applied psychology 24431 Happiness. 23756 Attitude (Psychology) 24375 Self-actualization (Psychology) 26250 TB 15308 15308 0 0 ddc 0 0 SHSSM CLIITBBS CLIITBBS 2026-02-04 22 599.25 0 158 LYU/H TB12779 2026-02-04 00:00:00 799.00 2026-02-04 TB