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Positive Psychology Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Book Cover for: If Opportunity Doesn't Knock, Build a Door: Graduation Autograph Signature Memory Book, E. Meehan

If Opportunity Doesn't Knock, Build a Door: Graduation Autograph Signature Memory Book

E. Meehan
Positive PsychologyPositive Psychology

“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” – Kurt Cobain https://t.co/NUgqozka5Q

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Book Cover for: Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age, Katherine May

Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

Katherine May
Positive PsychologyPositive Psychology

Katherine May, author of the new book Enchantment, offers tips on discovering little things to fill you with wonder and awe and how they can help you feel alive again. https://t.co/CfcdA087vF?

Hardcover, 2023

$26.00$13.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Through These Doors: When One Door of Happiness Closes, Another Opens, Penny Garrison

Through These Doors: When One Door of Happiness Closes, Another Opens

Penny Garrison
Positive PsychologyPositive Psychology

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.” ―Helen Keller https://t.co/pOngzshCA9

Paperback, 2014

$12.99$6.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Curious Minds: The Power of Connection, Perry Zurn

Curious Minds: The Power of Connection

Perry Zurn
Positive PsychologyPositive Psychology

What does it mean to be curious? Discover more with this excerpt from UPenn's Dani S. Basset and twin sibling Perry Zurn's new book, 'Curious Minds: The Power of Connection'. https://t.co/vUH7anj8Y0

Paperback, 2023

$22.95$11.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Life: Selected Quotations, Paulo Coelho

Life: Selected Quotations

Paulo Coelho
Positive PsychologyPositive Psychology

“The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”― Paulo Coelho https://t.co/RDTLV43BuK

Hardcover, 2007

$16.99$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Sunday Paper: A Media History, Paul Moore

The Sunday Paper: A Media History

Paul Moore
Positive PsychologyPositive Psychology

Dr. Gabriella Rosen Kellerman, one of the authors of the new book Tomorrowmind: Thriving at Work with Resilience, Creativity, and Connection--Now and in an Uncertain Future, speaks with The Sunday Paper on coping with catastrophizing and more. https://t.co/VsxdlTVWdd

Paperback, 2022

$29.95$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Belonging: The Science of Creating Connection and Bridging Divides, Geoffrey L. Cohen

Belonging: The Science of Creating Connection and Bridging Divides

Geoffrey L. Cohen
Positive PsychologyPositive Psychology

How might feeling like we belong contribute to our success? In this podcast, Stanford's Dr. Geoffrey L. Cohen discusses the importance of belonging, and how small interventions may have big impacts. https://t.co/SWSVvCGjZT

Hardcover, 2022

$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Edith Wharton - War & Travel: "There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it.", Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton - War & Travel: "There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it."

Edith Wharton
Positive PsychologyPositive Psychology

"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it." - Edith Wharton https://t.co/go778i3ytb

Paperback, 2015

$10.24$5.12 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness, Robert Waldinger

The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness

Robert Waldinger
Positive PsychologyPositive Psychology

A new book from Dr. Robert Waldinger and Dr. Marc Schulz is finally available. The Good Life: Lessons From the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness, details the results from a happiness study that began in the 1930s! https://t.co/B7NjbOtLpC

Hardcover, 2023

$28.99$14.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Tomorrowmind: Thriving at Work with Resilience, Creativity, and Connection--Now and in an Uncertain Future, Gabriella Rosen Kellerman

Tomorrowmind: Thriving at Work with Resilience, Creativity, and Connection--Now and in an Uncertain Future

Gabriella Rosen Kellerman
Positive PsychologyPositive Psychology

Dr. Gabriella Rosen Kellerman, one of the authors of the new book Tomorrowmind: Thriving at Work with Resilience, Creativity, and Connection--Now and in an Uncertain Future, speaks with The Sunday Paper on coping with catastrophizing and more. https://t.co/VsxdlTVWdd

Hardcover, 2023

$28.99$14.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book