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The Happiness Track

How to Apply the Science of Happiness to Accelerate Your Success

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The Happiness Track

By: Emma Seppala
Narrated by: Nan McNamara
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A leading expert on health psychology, well-being, and resilience argues that happiness is the key to fast tracking our professional and personal success.

Everyone wants to be happy and successful. And yet the pursuit of both has never been more elusive. As work and personal demands rise, we try to keep up by juggling everything better, moving faster, and doing more. While we might succeed in the short term, it comes at a cost to our well-being, our relationships, and, paradoxically, our productivity.

In The Happiness Track, Emma Seppala, the science director of the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education at Stanford University, explains that our inability to achieve sustainable fulfillment is tied to common but outdated notions about success. We are taught that getting ahead means doing everything that's thrown at us (and then some) with razor-sharp focus and iron discipline; that success depends on our drive and talents; and that achievement cannot happen without stress.

The Happiness Track demolishes these counterproductive theories. Drawing on the latest findings from the fields of cognitive psychology and neuroscience - research on happiness, resilience, willpower, compassion, positive stress, creativity, and mindfulness - Seppala shows that finding happiness and fulfillment may, in fact, be the most productive thing we can do to thrive professionally. Filled with practical advice on how to apply these scientific findings to our daily lives, The Happiness Track is a life-changing guide to fast tracking our success and creating the anxiety-free lives we want.

©2016 Emma Seppala (P)2016 HarperCollins Publishers
Career Success Personal Success Happiness Career Compassion Resilience

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Brilliant useful tools that has me happier and loving life

I really liked the tools and the science behind it. Simplified and understandable stratified that I have been able to implement immediately.

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Not as good as I was lead to believe...

While there are some great points & tips I found myself having to constantly filter out the never ending long winded tiles of professors from whatever institute in the such in such department and author of ......etc etc. Scenarios often related to those in corporate/ business & higher academic learning environments which I found less relatable.

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