BOOKS | Recommended Reading | Positive Psychology
“Writing is the painting of your voice” ~ Voltaire
‘ATOMIC HABITS: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones’
By James Clear, 2018
‘BEFORE HAPPINESS: The 5 Hidden Keys to achieving success, spreading happiness, and sustaining positive change’
By Shawn Achor, 2013
‘BIG POTENTIAL: How Transforming the Pursuit of Success Raises our Achievement, Happiness and Well-Being’
By Shawn Achor, 2018
‘CHARACTER STRENGTHS MATTER:
How to Live a Full Life’
By Shannon Polly and Kathryn Britton,
authors & editors, 2015
’CHARACTER STRENGTHS AND VIRTUES:
A Handbook and Classifications’
By Christopher Peterson and Martin Seligman, 2004
‘CHATTER: The Voice in Our Head, Why it Matters, and how to Harness it’
By Ethan Kross, 2022
‘FIERCE SELF-COMPASSION: How Women can Harness Kindness to Speak Up, Claim their Power and Thrive’
By Kristin Neff, 2021
‘FLOURISH: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-being’
By Martin Seligman , 2012
‘FLOW : The Psychology of Optimal Experience’
By Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, 2008
‘GIVE AND TAKE: Why Helping others drives our Success’
By Adam Grant, 2014
‘GRATITUDE WORKS:A 21 Day Program for creating Emotional Prosperity’
By Robert Emmons, 2013
‘GRIT: The Power of Passion and Perseverance’
By Angela Duckworth, 2018
‘THE HAPPINESS ADVANTAGE: The 7 Principles of Positive Psychology that Fuel Success & Performance at Work’
By Shawn Achor, 2011
‘HAPPY MIND HAPPY LIFE: The New Science of Mental Well-Being
By Rangan Chatterjee, 2022
‘HARDWIRING HAPPINESS:
The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm and Confidence’
By Rick Hanson, 2013
‘HIDDEN POTENTIAL: The Science of Achieving Greater Things’
By Adam Grant, 2023
‘THE HOPE CIRCUIT: A Psychologist’s Journey from Helplessness to Optimism’
By Martin Seligman, 2018
‘THE HOW OF HAPPINESS:
A New Approach to getting the Life you Want’
By Sonja Lyubomirsky, 2008
‘IKIGAI: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life’
By Héctor García and Francesc Miralles, 2017
‘THE JOY OF LEADERSHIP: How Positive Psychology can Maximize your Impact (and make you Happier) in a Challenging World’
By Tal Ben-Shahar and Angus Ridgway, 2017
‘LEARNED OPTIMISM: How to Change your Mind and your Life’
By Martin Seligman, 2006
‘LOVE 2.0: Finding Happiness and Health in Moments of Connection’
By Barbara Fredrickson, 2013
‘MAN’S SEARCH FOR MEANING’
By Victor Frankl, 2006
‘MAKE YOUR JOB A CALLING:
How the Psychology of Vocation can Change your Life at Work’
By Bryan Dik and Ryan Duffy, 2013
‘MINDSET: The New Psychology of Success
How we can Learn to Fulfill our Potential’
By Carol Dweck, 2007
‘ORIGINALS
How Non-Conformists Move the World’
By Adam Grant, 2017
‘POSITIVITY:
Top-Notch Research reveals the 3 to 1 Ratio that will change your Life’
By Barbara Fredrickson, 2009
‘POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY COACHING:
Putting the Science of Happiness to work for your Clients’
By Robert Biswas-Diener and Ben Dean, 2007
‘THE POWER OF CHARACTER STRENGTHS:
Appreciate and Ignite your Positive Personality’
By Ryan Niemiec and Robert McGrath, 2019
‘THE POWER OF HABIT:
Why we Do What we Do in Life and Business’
By Charles Duhigg, 2014
‘PURPOSE AND MEANING:
In the Workplace’
Edited by Bryan Dik, Zinta Byrne and Michael Steger
‘PURSUING THE GOOD LIFE:
100 Reflections on Positive Psychology’
By Christopher Peterson, 2012
‘RESILIENT: How to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength, and Happiness’
By Rick Hanson with Forrest Hanson, 2018
‘SELF-COMPASSION: Stop Beating Yourself Up and Leave Insecurity Behind’
By Kristin Neff, 2015
‘THANKS!
How Practicing Gratitude can make you Happier’
By Robert Emmons, 2008
‘THINK AGAIN: The Power of Knowing what You Don’t Know’
By Adam Grant, 2021
‘TOMORROWMIND:
Thriving at Work with
Resilience, Creativity, and Connection
– Now and in an Uncertain Future’
By Gabriella Rosen Kellerman and Martin Seligman, 2023
‘THE UPSIDE OF YOUR DARK SIDE:
Why being your Whole Self – Not just your ‘Good Self’ – Drives Success and Fulfillment’
By Todd Kashdan and Robert Biswas-Diener, 2015
AUDIO:
Progressive Relaxation , 2015, by Sushama Kirtikar