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Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-Being [Hardback]

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  • Format: Hardback, 349 pages, height x width x depth: 233x163x28 mm, weight: 517 g, Illustrations, black and white
  • Pub. Date: 05-Apr-2011
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • ISBN-10: 1439190755
  • ISBN-13: 9781439190753
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  • Format: Hardback, 349 pages, height x width x depth: 233x163x28 mm, weight: 517 g, Illustrations, black and white
  • Pub. Date: 05-Apr-2011
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • ISBN-10: 1439190755
  • ISBN-13: 9781439190753
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Keywords:
Explains the four pillars of well-being--meaning and purpose, positive emotions, relationships, and accomplishment--placing emphasis on meaning and purpose as the most important for achieving a life of fulfillment. In a book that includes interactive exercises, the author explains what he believes to be the four pillars of well-being--meaning and purpose, positive emotions, relationships and accomplishment--arguing that meaning and purpose is the most important of all. By the best-selling author of Learned Optimism. 150,000 first printing. The creator of one of the most influential theories of the 20th century presents for the first time a complete, new theory of the best way to live.
Preface 1(2)
Part 1: A New Positive Psychology 3(96)
Chapter 1 What Is Well-Being?
5(25)
The Birth of a New Theory
9(2)
The Original Theory: Authentic Happiness
11(2)
From Authentic Happiness Theory to Well-Being Theory
13(1)
Well-Being Theory
14(2)
The Elements of Well-Being
16(10)
Kindness Exercise
21(5)
Flourishing as the Goal of Positive Psychology
26(4)
Chapter 2 Creating Your Happiness: Positive Psychology Exercises That Work
30(15)
The Gratitude Visit
30(1)
Can Well-Being Be Changed?
31(2)
What-Went-Well Exercise
33(2)
Positive Psychology Interventions and Cases
35(3)
Signature Strengths Exercise
38(2)
Positive Psychotherapy
40(5)
Chapter 3 The Dirty Little Secret of Drugs and Therapy
45(18)
Cure Versus Symptom Relief
46(1)
The 65 Percent Barrier
47(1)
Active, Constructive Responding
48(3)
Dealing with Negative Emotions
51(2)
A New Approach to Cure
53(2)
Applied Psychology Versus Basic Psychology: Problems Versus Puzzles
55(1)
Wittgenstein, Popper, and Penn
56(7)
Chapter 4 Teaching Well-Being: The Magic of MAPP
63(15)
The First MAPP
64(2)
Ingredients of Applied Positive Psychology
66(5)
Intellectually Challenging Applicable Content
66(4)
Personal and Professional Transformation
70(1)
Transformations
71(4)
Called to Positive Psychology
75(3)
Chapter 5 Positive Education: Teaching Well-Being to Young People
78(21)
Should Well-Being Be Taught in School?
79(6)
The Penn Resiliency Program: A Way to Teach Well-Being in School
81(4)
Three-Good-Things Exercise
84(1)
Using Signature Strengths in New Ways
84(1)
The Geelong Grammar School Project
85(8)
Teaching Positive Education
89(1)
Embedding Positive Education
90(2)
Living Positive Education
92(1)
Positive Computing
93(3)
A New Measure of Prosperity
96(3)
Part 2: The Ways To Flourish 99(144)
Chapter 6 GRIT, Character, and Achievement: A New Theory of Intelligence
101(25)
Success and Intelligence
102(1)
Positive Character
103(3)
Drawn by the Future, Not Driven by the Past
104(2)
What Intelligence Is
106(18)
Speed
106(4)
The Virtue of Slowness
110(5)
Executive Function
112(1)
Rate of Learning: The First Derivative of Speed
113(2)
Self-Control and GRIT
115(3)
GRIT Versus Self-Discipline
118(4)
High Human Accomplishment
119(3)
GRIT's Benefits
122(2)
Building the Elements of Success
124(2)
Chapter 7 Army Strong: Comprehensive Soldier Fitness
126(26)
A Psychologically Fit Army
126(3)
Global Assessment Tool (GAT)
129(8)
Online Courses
137(15)
Emotional Fitness Module
139(3)
Family Fitness Module
142(1)
Social Fitness Module
143(6)
Spiritual Fitness Module
149(3)
Chapter 8 Turning Trauma into Growth
152(30)
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
152(7)
Post-Traumatic Growth
159(2)
Post-Traumatic Growth Course
161(2)
Post-Traumatic Growth Inventory
161(2)
Master Resilience Training
163(14)
Building Mental Toughness
167(2)
The Hot Seat: Fighting Catastrophic Thoughts in Real Time
169(2)
Hunt the Good Stuff
171(1)
Character Strengths
171(2)
Building Strong Relationships
173(4)
The Rollout
177(5)
Chapter 9 Positive Physical Health: The Biology of Optimism
182(39)
Turning Medicine on Its Head
182(2)
Origins of Learned Helplessness Theory
184(6)
Cardiovascular Disease (CVD)
190(4)
Infectious Illness
194(6)
Cancer and All-Cause Mortality
200(4)
Is Well-Being Causal, and How Might It Protect?
204(4)
Positive Health
208(5)
Army Database: A National Treasure
211(2)
Cardiovascular Health Assets
213(1)
Exercise as a Health Asset '
214(7)
Chapter 10 The Politics and Economics of Well-Being
221(22)
Beyond Money
221(1)
The Divergence Between GDP and Well-Being
222(6)
The Financial Downturn
228(9)
Ethics Versus Values
228(4)
Optimism and Economics
232(2)
Reflexive and Nonreflexive Reality
234(3)
PERMA 51
237(6)
Appendix: Signature Strengths Test 243(24)
Thanks and Acknowledgments 267(4)
Notes 271(50)
Index 321