num_pages: 224
description: 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 and director of the Yale College Emotional Intelligence Project explains that our inability to achieve sustainable fulfillment is tied to common but outdated notions about success.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 thats 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 neuroscienceresearch on happiness resilience willpower compassion positive stress creativity mindfulnessSeppala 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.
language: English
title: The Happiness Track: How to Apply the Science of Happiness to Accelerate Your Success
publisher: HarperOne