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Brilliant Positive Psychology: What Makes Us Happy, Optimistic and Motivated
Every aspect of your life can be improved with positive psychology. Positive psychology helps us build resilience, optimism, emotional intelligence, meaning, self-esteem, wisdom, motivation and much more! It wakes us up to the power of feeling good, thinking positively and acting generously. With positive psychology we can be healthier, live longer and feel more fulfilled ? there is nothing more important this. Brilliant Positive Psychology reveals the principles and practices of positive psychology, and shows you how you can incorporate them into your life today. Packed with exercises and written specifically to coach you through the building blocks of positive psychology, it will help you to bring out your very best and guide you, step by step, towards a life brimming with happiness and fulfilment. Brilliant outcomes Understand what you can do, right now, to feel better. Learn simple practices to improve your well-being. Discover your strengths and how to use them.
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284 pages, Paperback
First published August 30, 2010
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September 17, 2017
Awesome!! 5 stars! Very easy to read and a realistic view about positiveness...which is not always milk and honey. This book will give you the freedom to feel good with your bad periods and ugly moments. +Practical exercises!
September 17, 2017
Awesome!! 5 stars! Very #easy to read and a #realistic view about #positiveness...which is not always milk& honey. This book will give you the #freedom to feel good with your #bad periods&ugly moments. +Practical exercises!
September 3, 2022
Leest gemakkelijk weg maar stipt echt de basis aan . Vraagt naar meer verdieping
September 9, 2022
irritating with too much repetition and "brilliant" stuff
March 14, 2023
Foarte fain în teorie dar practica ne omoară.
December 19, 2013
The book I read to research this post was Brilliant Positive Psychology by Charlotte Style which is a very good book which I read at
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I did review a similiar book recently called Brilliant Positive Thinking and both books cover a lot of common ground. Both books said that it's not about being positive continously but bouncing back from being sad. Sadness helps us appreciate happiness and something interesting is that positive people allow themselves to be sad without fighting it and accept it for what it is. An exercise in the book is to list your charasterics or strengths in descending order and work on the ones near the bottom of the list. If being brave is near the top of your list what about working on being kind and selfless. One lady listed bravery near the bottom of her list and in particularly hated her journey back from her workplace. She decided to try and find something to occupy her whilst travelling and now looks forward to it. There was a story in the book about 2 boys aged 10 & 11 who did a horrible random attack on 2 boys aged 9 & 11. They hit them with bricks and forced them to sexually assault one another. They both got imprisoned for a minimum of 5 years. It turned they had terrible parents. The father used to beat up the mother and children. They were allowed to watch pornography and smoked tobacco and cannabis. They also were persistently in trouble for anti social offenses. The social workers dealing with them were hopeless and in particular didn't ask the right questions and didn't seem to have a clue what was going on. For some people going to prison is almost a blessing which I think it probably was in their case. In another book I read about a man who committed loads of rapes and murders and he went to prison. It turned out he had been persistently sexually abused and going to prison was almost a relief and he became a model prisoner. I did really enjoy this book and it's an interesting subject.
http://safaribooksonline.com
I did review a similiar book recently called Brilliant Positive Thinking and both books cover a lot of common ground. Both books said that it's not about being positive continously but bouncing back from being sad. Sadness helps us appreciate happiness and something interesting is that positive people allow themselves to be sad without fighting it and accept it for what it is. An exercise in the book is to list your charasterics or strengths in descending order and work on the ones near the bottom of the list. If being brave is near the top of your list what about working on being kind and selfless. One lady listed bravery near the bottom of her list and in particularly hated her journey back from her workplace. She decided to try and find something to occupy her whilst travelling and now looks forward to it. There was a story in the book about 2 boys aged 10 & 11 who did a horrible random attack on 2 boys aged 9 & 11. They hit them with bricks and forced them to sexually assault one another. They both got imprisoned for a minimum of 5 years. It turned they had terrible parents. The father used to beat up the mother and children. They were allowed to watch pornography and smoked tobacco and cannabis. They also were persistently in trouble for anti social offenses. The social workers dealing with them were hopeless and in particular didn't ask the right questions and didn't seem to have a clue what was going on. For some people going to prison is almost a blessing which I think it probably was in their case. In another book I read about a man who committed loads of rapes and murders and he went to prison. It turned out he had been persistently sexually abused and going to prison was almost a relief and he became a model prisoner. I did really enjoy this book and it's an interesting subject.
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