Flourish : A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-being (CD-Audio)

from marymuse

This book was a DNF for me, and I think it's because the inforamtion is presented in a very dry, academic tone. Or maybe I was coming at the book from the wrong direction. As someone working through depression, I know what happiness means to me, and yeah, it matches what the author said about pos...

from jms001

To be happy, you gotta think happy.It's an interesting book, and there are a lot of ideas to get out of Seligman's book. It's a bit of a read in that you really have to sit down and think hard about what he's saying. It reads almost like a textbook; maybe less like a research paper. There are a c...

from marti.booker

I'd give it four stars except the actual writing style was very difficult to get through, especially the first couple chapters. He actually loosened up and wrote less aggressively statistically once he'd settled into the book. The ideas he pushes are really interesting, I look forward to seeing m...

from NellieMc

Not a textbook, which is good, and often states illuminating ideas, esp. the difference between being happy and flourishing. Well worth reading, although there is a lot of irrelevant details about the author's history in establishing and justifying the field of positive psychology and his student...

from PlanCultivateCreate

Great ideas on well-being and positive psychology, backed with extensive research and a website to test yourself along the same variables they use in the book. Highly recommended to educators, parents, and military men and women and their families.