The Psychology of Happiness

The Psychology of Everything

by Peter Warr

Is happiness all down to luck? Do events in our life influence how happy we feel? Can too much of a good thing make us less happy? The Psychology of Happiness introduces readers to the variety of factors that can affect how happy we are. From our personality and feelings of self-worth, to our physical health and employment status, happiness is a subjective experience which will change throughout our lives. Although feeling happy is linked with positive thinking and our sociability in daily life, the book also includes surprising facts about the limitations of our personal happiness. We all want to feel happy in our lives, and The Psychology of Happiness shows us that achieving it can be both an accident of fortune and as a direct result of our own actions and influence.

Genres: Psychology

110 pages, Paperback

Published April 11, 2019

Reviews

[Anthony · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book, although full of scientific research results and psychological data, is very insightful about the nature of happiness. The author did a good job organizing research results and proposed practical ways to shift internal mindsets and external environments, the two big factors of happiness. The author listed the 9 factors of external happiness including the capacity to cause change (personal influence), variety, human interaction, money, and explained why some of these are too good of a good thing. For example having a lot of money would not bring more happiness than having sufficient amount of money. In conclusion, there is a delicate world of balance for happiness, as is anything else in our lives. You should try to have ADEQUATE levels of ALL good factors of happiness while being acceptive of external factors on the inside and reappraise things that happened to you.

[Alex · Rating 2 out of 5]

For a trade book, this is less accessible than I expected, but I still found several of the frameworks interesting.