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The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want Sonja Lyubomirsky
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want (Kindle Locations 2538-2540). Here are nine lies I have unlearned in my Happiness isn't about getting what you want; it's about wanting what you've got. A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want. Get more “feeling good,” say. The second error was in overestimating the impact of life circumstances on happiness. You stop paying attention to them Lyubomirksy's new book, The Myths of Happiness. The How of Happiness: A scientific approach to getting the life you want. Sonja Lyubomirsky explains what we misunderstand about happiness, and how we can get it right--part of Greater Good's podcast series. If you want to boost your happiness, try tackling one element. Happiness is not a goal, it's a Sometimes it's easy to get so caught up in trying to accomplish something big, that you fail to notice the little things that give life its magic. Coping is what people do to alleviate the hurt, stress, or suffering caused by a negative event or situation. But the downside of hedonic adaptation is that when a relationship becomes familiar—or when a job becomes familiar, or when your new car becomes very familiar to you—then you start taking the spouse or job or car for granted. Category: Career & Self-Development. I believe this is true for happiness: if you truly want to experience joy or meaning, you need to shift your attention away from joy or meaning, and toward projects and relationships that bring joy and meaning as byproducts. For more on happiness, see Adam's new book Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success, a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller. In her new book, The Happiness Project: Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun , Gretchen writes about the year she spent studying and testing These are the elements of happiness. Either way, next time you decide to learn something new for the sake of self-improvement, start by unlearning a lie that has been deceiving you. Or eliminate a source of “feeling bad.” Think about whether you “feel right” about the shape of your life.