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The Happiness Track: How to Apply the Science of Happiness to Accelerate Your Success

by Emma M. Seppälä

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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, 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Education at Stanford University, explains that our inability to achieve sustainable fulfillment is tied to common but outdated notions about success.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 counter-productive theories. Drawing on the latest findings from the fields of cognitive psychology and neuroscience-research on happiness, resilience, willpower, compassion, positive stress, creativity, 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 life we want.… (more)
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This book encourages readers to live a stress-free (or at least, less stressful) life by listing volumes of research that linked lower stress to more successful outcomes in terms of professional success, health, charisma.....etc. She listed six specific means to lower stress in life, including developing "self-compassion" (I think this means being nice to yourself, rather than being critical.....okay I don't really understand what it means even after I explained it. I don't understand intra-communication.), incorporating downtime into your schedule, and having a grateful and compassionate attitude toward the world. She often suggested meditation and breathing techniques as means to lower stress. But when discussing meditation, she briefly mentioned that research showed prayer works pretty well too :P. She taught a breathing technique that involves covering one nostril, breathe through the other nostril, then cover that other nostril and breathe through the first nostril. She says you will experience a significant difference after five minutes. (I will never do this exercise in the presence of another person, but I somehow really want to watch others do it :D :D :D ) ( )
  CathyChou | Mar 11, 2022 |
I first learnt of Emma Seppala when I was taking the Science of Happiness course at the University of Berkeley. (Online). After decades of research on happiness, Seppala's wisdom shines through in this book. The principles she shares, some of those were truly new to me - for example, how to do more by doing nothing. The others about compassion and kindness I had already tried to imbibe. But the art of Wu Wei is my biggest takeaway from this book. Read it once. And practice it as many times. ( )
  Soulmuser | May 30, 2017 |
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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, 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 counter-productive theories. Drawing on the latest findings from the fields of cognitive psychology and neuroscience-research on happiness, resilience, willpower, compassion, positive stress, creativity, 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 life we want.

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