The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want

Sonja Lyubomirsky

Dec 2007 · Penguin Random House Audio · Narrated by Sonja Lyubomirsky

About this audiobook

You can change your personal capacity for happiness. Research psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky's pioneering concept of the 40% solution shows you how.

Ratings and reviews

I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn to be happy. The diagnostics help you understand which activities can make you happy and what we might want to improve on. The book is divided into chapters each dedicated to different practical advice. This is a well researched and well written self-help book and at the same time a review of various studies that have been done on improving lasting well-being. The activities are easy to do. Clearly explained. And if you don't believe that it will work, there is proof of it working for many others. So its a collection of tested methods. Although, I do question the advice on religion and spirituality.

It's based on research and science not just rhetoric. If you find the best fit activities and regularly do them, you will live a happier life, 100%!

About the author

Sonja Lyubomirsky, PhD, is a professor of psychology at the University of California, Riverside. She received her BA from Harvard University and her PhD in social psychology from Stanford University. Lyubomirsky and her research have been the recipients of many honors, including the 2002 Templeton Positive Psychology Prize and a multiyear grant from the National Institute of Mental Health. She lives in Santa Monica, California, with her family.