THE HOW OF HAPPINESS

Is a book written by Sonja Lyubomirsky which explains mainly on how you can get the life you want.

I think that all know that everything we do has a meaning or after doing that has a reason for it. Sonja tries to tell us that when we try taking actions to live better and happier is not a silly goal. She pretends that ones happiness is about 50 % determined by genetics, 40% by self control and 10% by circumstance. In my opinion I would give self control and genetics the same percentage 45%.

Sonja explains that happy people tend to be helthier, great results at work, more effective and have great optimism and all these may help people around them.

Every one of us needs to find a point where he is comfortable with his /her activity and what he really wants. There is a chapter which explains how a person can select activities that fit his interest and needs.

For my opinion different people has different meaning of happiness. Happines for someone can not be happiness for me and viceversa. That’s why different people has their own interest and needs.

Sonja also has included 12 steps that can help raising happiness to internal behaviour of a person.

I liked the fact that the book includes steps to positive psychology in practice tests. I think that also this book helps all peoples who are stressed but also the others raising their happiness and as I said before happier people help the others around them and so on.

A positive and good book to be recommended to the others.

"Pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man." -Muhammad Ali 

Whoever is happy will make others happy too. He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery." -Anne Frank