Positivity 101: 15 Science-Based Strategies for Cultivating Enjoyment, Gratitude, Serenity, and Awe

by Barbara L. Fredrickson

The Dalai Lama declared that “the purpose of our lives is to be happy.” Indeed, prioritizing positivity can boost your health and well-being in powerful ways. And when positivity resonates between you and others, it strengthens your relationships and communities, making them kinder and more compassionate, more supportive of everyone’s health and well-being.

In this remarkable 15-lecture audio course, Dr. Barbara Fredrickson - celebrated professor, best-selling author, TED Talk Celebrity, and leading positive psychology expert - shows you how to enhance your awareness of fleeting states of emotional uplift to help balance your brain’s built-in bias toward the negative. You’ll learn how even subtle positive emotions - like enjoyment, gratitude, serenity, and awe - can expand your awareness and ignite upward spirals of growth within you.

Dr. Frederickson, recipient of the Tang Prize for Achievements in Psychology, is the author of Positivity and more than 130 peer-reviewed articles in the field of positive psychology. Through her exceptional lectures, you will learn to challenge the reflexive habit of seeing emotions as “belonging” to individuals (e.g., your joy, her anger). You’ll find that emotions, especially positive emotions, can often more accurately be described as “belonging” to the collective, and see how this resonance of positivity might well be the most elemental building block of love.

Genres: Nonfiction, Psychology

Audiobook

Published July 28, 2012

About the author

Dr Barbara Fredrickson is Kenan Distinguished Professor of Psychology and principal investigator of the Positive Emotions and Psychophysiology Laboratory at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is a leading scholar within social psychology, affective science, and positive psychology.

Reviews

[✧ hayley (the sugar bowl) ✧ · Rating 4 out of 5]

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read this for class and it was really interesting and informative. i learned a lot about positivity and would recommend if you’re interested in the benefits of positive emotions and how they can affect your life!


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[Ludmilla · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 stars. Overall, the book has good information but it didn’t offer dramatic insights as all of what she discussed I understand, at least intuitively. Still it’s good to get a reminder of the importance of positivity in our lives. I’m not a big fan of the lecture format but the writing is fine.

[Eleanor McGhee · Rating 4 out of 5]

Learned a lot & really enjoyed this