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Author : R. Veenhoven
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 581 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789401537261
Author : Ruut Veenhoven
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9401537275
Author : Gretchen Rubin
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781443418195
What if you could change your life--without changing your life? Gretchen had a good marriage, two healthy daughters, and work she loved--but one day, stuck on a city bus, she realized that time was flashing by, and she wasn’t thinking enough about the things that really mattered. “I should have a happiness project,” she decided. She spent the next year test-driving the wisdom of the ages, current scientific studies, and lessons from popular culture about how to be happier. Each month, she pursued a different set of resolutions: go to sleep earlier, quit nagging, forget about results, or take time to be silly. Bit by bit, she began to appreciate and amplify the happiness that already existed in her life. Written with humour and insight, Gretchen’s story will inspire you to start your own happiness project. Now in a beautiful, expanded edition, Gretchen offers a wealth of new material including happiness paradoxes and practical tips on many daily matters: being a more light-hearted parent, sticking to a fitness routine, getting your sweetheart to do chores without nagging, coping when you forget someone’s name and more.
Author : R. Veenhoven
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789400964327
This book is about the degree to which people take pleasure in life: in short 'happiness'. It tries to identify conditions that favor a positive appreciation of life. Thus it hopes to shed more light on a longstanding and intriguing ques tion and, possibly, to guide attempts to improve the human lot. During the preceding decades a growing number of investigations have dealt with this issue. As a result there is now a sizable body of data. Yet it is quite difficult to make sense of it. There is a muddle of theories, concepts and indicators, and many of the findings seem to be contradictory. This book attempts to bring some order into the field. The study draws on an inventory of empirical investigations which involved valid indicators of happiness; 245 studies are involved, which together yield some 4000 observations: for the main part correlational ones. These results are presented in full detail in the simultaneously published 'Databook of Happiness' (Veenhoven 1984). The present volume distils conclusions from that wealth of data. It tries to assess the reality value of the findings and the degree to which correlations reflect the conditions of happiness rather than the consequences of it. It then attempts to place the scattered findings in context. As such, this work is not a typical study of literature on happiness.
Author : Antonella Delle Fave
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789400757028
This specially selected collection of landmark work from the Journal of Happiness Studies maps the current contours, and the likely future direction, of research in a field with a fast-rising profile. This volume, which inaugurates a series aiming to explore discrete topics in happiness and wellbeing studies, features selected articles published in the Journal of Happiness Studies during its first decade, which culminated in an ‘impact factor’ in 2011. As the introductory work in the series, it provides readers with a vital overview of the prominent issues, problems and challenges that well-being and happiness research has had to overcome since its appearance on the scientific stage. The journal’s very success evinces both the high scientific quality of the research covered, and the steadily growing interest in a subject that draws responses from a vast range of epistemological aiming points, taking in economics, sociology, psychology, philosophy, education and medicine. The series of volumes following this debut publication will represent a unique contribution to the literature in their multidisciplinary focus on particularized topics. It is reckoned that this will help strengthen cross-disciplinary synergies among authors investigating the same topic, as well as whet the appetite for happiness research among professionals and experts inhabiting a variety of academic domains. This volume addresses the theory of well-being and happiness, the different research approaches now probing their features and components, and the socio-economic and cultural issues that impact on their promotion..
Author : Andrew E. Clark,Sarah Flèche,Richard Layard,Nattavudh Powdthavee,George Ward
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691196954
A new perspective on life satisfaction and well-being over the life course What makes people happy? The Origins of Happiness seeks to revolutionize how we think about human priorities and to promote public policy changes that are based on what really matters to people. Drawing on a range of evidence using large-scale data from various countries, the authors consider the key factors that affect human well-being, including income, education, employment, family conflict, health, childcare, and crime. The Origins of Happiness offers a groundbreaking new vision for how we might become more healthy, happy, and whole.
Author : Matthew Phelan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798665222325
Freedom To Be Happy explores the association between individual happiness and group performance at work. The book introduces happiness philosophers, reviews the evidence, and interviews practitioners on the front line that are building thriving work cultures.The book uses data, neuroscience, quantum physics, and academic research in a really accessible, unique, fun, and human way. Subjects include money & happiness, motivation, happiness, HR, marketing, employee happiness, happiness philosophy, the Stoics, the history of happiness, employee engagement, diversity and inclusion, equality and the future of work. Research interviews for this book are live on The Happiness and Humans podcast. The objective of this book is to empower the reader to make a very strong case that the happiness of human beings is a very serious business metric .1. Why happiness? 2. What is happiness? 3. Can money make you happy? 4. Is happiness nature or nurture? 5. Is happiness a fluffy metric? 6. Discovering happiness 7. Scaling happiness 8. Happiness biology and chemistry 9. Happiness practical tips 10. Happiness at work: contemporary philosophy and evidence 11. Employee happiness: research and evidence 12. Happiness: practitioners and evidence 13. The Happiness Index data 14. Happiness across the globe 15. The neuroscience of happiness 16. Introducing the quantum way 17. Freedom to be happy: the business case for happiness 18. The Happiness and Humans Community Charter "Matt is a rare talent. Truly putting happiness at the forefront of everything he does, be it work and play, demonstrates why he is such an outlier. His focus on the importance of human happiness backed up by neuroscience helps people untap the very best in themselves and their companies. I love partnering with Matt for that very reason - a true beacon of light for all aspiring and established CEOs, team leaders and employees alike." - Nicola Pearcey, President of UK and Europe Lionsgate "Matt is an authentic human who calls it as it is and is super curious. He endeavours to make big ripples of change and challenge the established ways of thinking and social norms. He helps to ensure everyone is informed, updated and thinking two steps ahead. I know this book will help us all to challenge our thinking around workplace engagement. Well done Matt!" - Margot Slattery, Sodexo Global Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer
Author : Leo Bormans
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Pte Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09
Category : Happiness
ISBN : 9814346322
"The knowledge and wisdom of 100 happiness professors from around the world. " It may be surprising to learn the amount of scientific research conducted on happiness and that there is a World Database of Happiness, a cumulative and continuous register of that research. In fact, the United States ranks higher than average in happiness, though not as high as the Nordic countries, including the happiest of nations, Denmark. So perhaps there is a lot to be learned about happiness and how to achieve it. "The World Book of Happiness" is a fascinating compilation of brief essays by 100 of the most prominent experts in positive psychology working in 50 countries. Writing from their own areas of expertise in language free of academic jargon, the contributors examine the principles of happiness, also known as subjective well-being, and how to achieve it. These expert recommendations are shown as "keys" to happiness. The book reveals many paths to happiness. From the founder of positive psychology, it is "other people matter." From Germany it is "pride, modesty and gratitude." In Malaysia it is "nourish the soul," and in Austria "fitness, friends and fun" bring happiness. And in Denmark, home to the happiest: "Believe in yourself." But what, too, of genetics, geography and health? The experts also consider these factors and recommend keys to happiness that address what we think we cannot control. Positive psychology may not be widely known, but the desire to be happy is universal. By transforming information into knowledge and knowledge into wisdom, "The World Book of Happiness" brings readers a hopeful and practical guide to that elusive state of being.
Author : Arthur C. Brooks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131693355
The author analyzes evidence and empirical research to determine which groups are the happiest in America; and offers suggestions on how the government can help individuals maximize their happiness.
Author : Nina Berberova
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2002-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0811215032
An outstanding novel about a young Russian woman's life in exile after the Russian Revolution. The Book of Happiness is one of the outstanding novels the great Russian writer Nina Berberova wrote during the years she lived in Paris, and the most autobiographical. "All Berberova's characters live raw, unfurnished lives, in poverty, on the edge of cities, with little sense of belongingexcept in moments of epiphanyto their time and in life itself" (The Observer). Such a character is Vera, the protagonist of The Book of Happiness. At the novel's opening, Vera is summoned to the scene of a suicide, that of her childhood companion, Sam Adler, whose family left Russia in the early days of the revolution and whom Vera has not seen in many years. His death reduces Vera to a flood of tears and memories of the times before Sam's departure, and thoughts about how her life has gone sinceher move to Paris where she lives tied to a brilliant but demanding invalid husband. Berberova spins the story with a wonderful unsentimental poignancy, making it a beautiful testament to the indestructibility of happiness.
Author : Ed Diener,Robert Biswas-Diener
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-07
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781444356557
Utilizing sophisticated methodology and three decades of research by the world's leading expert on happiness, Happiness challenges the present thinking of the causes and consequences of happiness and redefines our modern notions of happiness. shares the results of three decades of research on our notions of happiness covers the most important advances in our understanding of happiness offers readers unparalleled access to the world's leading experts on happiness provides "real world" examples that will resonate with general readers as well as scholars Winner of the 2008 PSP Prose Award for Excellence in Psychology, Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers
Author : Jennifer Moss
Publisher : Kogan Page Publishers
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780749478087
WINNER: Independent Press Awards 2018 - Business Motivation Category Unlocking Happiness at Work takes you on a journey into why and how leaders should become compassionate capitalists and ensure that their teams thrive. This book debunks the myth that happiness at work is a waste of time and demonstrates how it can deliver a more productive and engaged workforce, which can have real impact on the bottom line. Based on two decades of scientific research, real-time data, interviews and case studies, this book proves that happiness fuels higher performance, provides a greater sense of purpose and spreads passion throughout organizations. With insightful practical guidance throughout, Unlocking Happiness at Work is a lively and persuasive exploration of how to be happier and make others happier through the power of habits, emotional intelligence and an innovative approach to work/life flow. Case studies from lululemon, Zappos, Misfit Inc, The Body Shop and more are supported by tangible data and key performance indicators that show the significant benefits that come from adopting a happiness strategy. This is an essential resource for leaders who want to increase sustainability, attract new talent, improve their brand and boost profitability - in a way that is life-enhancing for them and their people.
Author : Vivek Wadhwa,Alex Salkever
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781523095858
“Technology is a great servant but a terrible master. This is the most important book ever written about one of the most significant aspects of our lives—the consequences of our addiction to online technology and how we can liberate ourselves and our children from it.” —Dean Ornish, M.D. Founder & President, Preventive Medicine Research Institute, Clinical Professor of Medicine, UCSF, Author, The Spectrum Technology: your master, or your friend? Do you feel ruled by your smartphone and enslaved by your e-mail or social-network activities? Digital technology is making us miserable, say bestselling authors and former tech executives Vivek Wadhwa and Alex Salkever. We've become a tribe of tech addicts—and it's not entirely our fault. Taking advantage of vulnerabilities in human brain function, tech companies entice us to overdose on technology interaction. This damages our lives, work, families, and friendships. Swipe-driven dating apps train us to evaluate people like products, diminishing our relationships. At work, we e-mail on average 77 times a day, ruining our concentration. At home, light from our screens is contributing to epidemic sleep deprivation. But we can reclaim our lives without dismissing technology. The authors explain how to avoid getting hooked on tech and how to define and control the roles that tech is playing and could play in our lives. And they provide a guide to technological and personal tools for regaining control. This readable book turns personal observation into a handy action guide to adapting to our new reality of omnipresent technology.
Author : Bjørn Grinde
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789400743922
The briefs presents a model for happiness based on current knowledge in evolutionary biology and neurobiology. Briefly, the primary purpose of nervous systems is to direct an animal toward behaviour relevant for survival and procreation. In primitive animals actions are based on reflexes, while in humans the modules directing behaviour engage positive and negative affect (good and bad feelings), and they are swayed by cognitive processes. The reason why evolution opted for this strategy was the improved flexibility in response – i.e., we learn from previous experiences. The human capacity for happiness is an accidental consequence. An array of brain modules has evolved to care for various pursuits, but recent studies suggest that they converge on shared neural circuits designed to generate positive and negative mood. Happiness can be construed as the net output of the relevant modules. The briefs suggests a strategy for how to avoid having negative feelings (such as anxiety, depression and chronic pain) dominate the mind, and how to exercise positive feelings. In short, the book offers both a deeper understanding of what happiness is about, and a framework for improving well-being. An array of brain modules has evolved to care for various pursuits, but recent studies suggest that they converge on shared neural circuits designed to generate positive and negative mood. Happiness can be construed as the net output of the relevant modules. The book suggests a strategy for how to avoid having negative feelings (such as anxiety, depression and chronic pain) dominate the mind, and how to exercise positive feelings. In short, the book offers both a deeper understanding of what happiness is about, and a framework for improving well-being.
Author : Michael Puett,Christine Gross-Loh
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-05
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781476777832
For the first time an award-winning Harvard professor shares the lessons from his wildly popular course on classical Chinese philosophy, showing you how these ancient ideas can guide you on the path to a good life today. The lessons taught by ancient Chinese philosophers surprisingly still apply, and they challenge our fundamental assumptions about how to lead a fulfilled, happy, and successful life. Self-discovery, it turns out, comes through looking outward, not inward. Power comes from holding back. Good relationships come from small gestures. Spontaneity comes from practice. And excellence comes from what you choose to do, not your “natural” abilities. Counterintuitive. Countercultural. Even revolutionary. These powerful ideas have made Professor Michael Puett's course the third most popular at Harvard University in recent years, with enrollment surging every year since it was first offered in 2006. It's clear students are drawn by a bold promise Professor Puett makes on the first day of class: “These ideas will change your life.” Now he offers his course to the world.