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15-Aug-2020 14:58
So I thought this book would treat those new aspects (achievement and positive relationships) in the same depth as he'd covered the earlier ones (positive emotion, engagement and meaning).
But it was more about what he's been up to in the last 10 years - working with the US Army on resilience and with students on self-control. Ditto for the defences of his work from formal and informal criticism. It's written in a very chatty style with lots of little digressions that make it seem unfocused.
I think I would have liked the book more if I'd known what I was getting. There's also some annoying self-congratulatory stuff like how he mentions he was elected president of the APA with the highest margin of victory ever.
As it is, I'm still waiting for the follow-up to Authentic Happiness that I was hoping for. I was hoping for lot more nuts & bolts, this is what you can do to flourish type content. It's written in a very chatty style with lots of little digressions that make it seem unfocused.
Edit: Now finished (well, I have to admit that I quickly I'm about 1/2 way through this book. There's also some annoying self-congratulatory stuff like how he mentions he was elected president of the APA with the highest margin of victory ever.
I was hoping for lot more nuts & bolts, this is what you can do to flourish type content.
If you're not knowledgeable about positive psychology, I would recommend "Learned Optimism" or "Authentic Happiness" by the same author, "Happier" by Tal Ben-Shahar, "Happiness" by Ed Diener, or "Positivity" by Barbara Frederickson instead.
Traditionally, the goal of psychology has been to relieve human suffering, but the goal of the Positive Psychology movement, which Dr.