Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment

This book introduces the idea of Positive Psychology, which focuses on strengths rather than weaknesses, asserting that happiness is not the result of good genes or luck. The author teaches readers that happiness can be cultivated by identifying and using many of the strengths and traits that they already possess - including kindness, originality, humour, optimism, and generosity. By frequently calling upon these 'signature strengths', they can move their lives up to a new, more positive plane. (Adapted from back cover).