A groundbreaking look at how readers can improve the world around them and achieve new and lasting levels of authentic contentment and joy.

Contents

Preface

Part I: Positive Emotion

1. Positive Feeling and Positive Character

2. How Psychology Lost Its Way and I Found Mine

3. Why Bother to Be Happy?

4. Can You Make Yourself Lastingly Happier?

5. Satisfaction about the Past

6. Optimism about the Future

7. Happiness in the Present

Part II: Strength and Virtue

8. Renewing Strength and Virtue

9. Your Signature Strengths

Part III: In the Mansions of Life

10. Work and Personal Satisfaction

11. Love

12. Raising Children

13. Reprise and Summary

14. Meaning and Purpose

Appendix: Terminology and Theory

Acknowledgments

Endnotes

Index