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You are remarkable. But do you always realise it? Realise your strengths and you'll be realising the best of you. Do you want to be confident, successful, and sustainably happy? Do you want to achieve your goals and enjoy better relationships? Leading strengths experts Dr Alex Linley, Dr Janet Willars and Dr Robert Biswas-Diener provide the evidence that shows you how. The Strengths Book reveals the sixty strengths that make us who we are. Bursting with insights on using each strength in relationships, at work and at play, it also gives examples of famous people who share the strength with you. There's even advice on not taking your strengths too far! If you're a manager, a parent, a career-changer, or even just you, remarkable as you are,The Strengths Book is for you. Discover your strengths - what you do best and love to do - and transform your life by realising the best of you.

Audible  Best Seller of 2017 Inc.  11 Great Business Books  New York Magazine  Best Psychology Books LinkedIn 's 12 Books on Leadership to ReadTwo mavericks in the field of positive psychology deliver a timely messageHappiness experts have long told us to tune out our negative emotions and focus instead on mindfulness, positivity, and optimism. Researchers Todd Kashdan, Ph.D., and Robert Biswas-Diener, Dr. Philos., disagree. Positive emotions alone are not enough. Anger makes us creative, selfishness makes us brave, and guilt is a powerful motivator. The real key to success lies in emotional agility. Drawing upon extensive scientific research and a wide array of real-life examples, The Upside of Your Dark Side will be embraced by business leaders, parents, and everyone else who’s ready to put their entire psychological tool kit to work.

The keys to understanding and developing courage This groundbreaking book reveals that courage is more about managing fear than not feeling it, and that courage can be learned. The author explains that most courageous people are unaware of their own bravery, and all of us have some form of courage in our lives now, to start with. The book is filled with illustrative examples, studies, and interviews from Greenland to Kenya, and defines the types of individuals who demonstrate general, personal, and civil courage. The author includes clear guidelines and suggestions for increasing our ability to be courageous. Includes guidelines that show how anyone can ramp-up their courage quotient and develop the qualities that strengthen personal courage Contains a wealth of examples and anecdotes of real-world courage from a variety of cultures A prolific writer, the author has a popular blog Psychology Today The author extols the virtues of personal courage and shows how to overcome fear and stand up for what is right.

Utilizing sophisticated methodology and three decades of research by the world's leading expert on happiness, Happiness challenges the present thinking of the causes and consequences of happiness and redefines our modern notions of happiness.shares the results of three decades of research on our notions of happiness covers the most important advances in our understanding of happiness offers readers unparalleled access to the world's leading experts on happiness provides "real world" examples that will resonate with general readers as well as scholars Winner of the 2008 PSP Prose Award for Excellence in Psychology, Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers

Hinterfragen, vertiefen, wachsen • 25 »Provokationen« für ein klareres Coaching und persönliche Entwicklung • Mit Anregungen für den bedarfsorientierten Transfer • Auch für angehende Coaches als Vorbereitung für die Praxis Im Coaching profitieren Klient:innen davon, ihre Glaubenssätze zu beleuchten und sich einer kritischen Selbstreflexion zu unterziehen. Auf diese Weise identifizieren sie Hinderliches und fördern persönliches Wachstum. Wie aber sieht es mit den Coaches aus? Damit ihre Arbeit lebendig und wertvoll bleibt, sollten sie sich selbst genauso hinterfragen, wie sie es bei ihren Coachees tun! Robert Biswas-Diener stellt eine Reihe von provokativen und spielerisch-humorvollen Fragen, die einen frischen Blick auf einige der beliebtesten Glaubenssätze im Coaching werfen: Warum sollten wir Klient:innen keine Hausaufgaben stellen? Wann ist Schweigen sinnvoll? Was, wenn wir weniger empathisch wären? Das Buch weckt die Neugierde, Fähigkeiten weiterzuentwickeln und das eigene Tun mit anderen Augen zu sehen.