Key Insights from Authentic Happiness:
- Positive psychology is focused on enhancing and promoting mental health rather than merely treating mental illness.
- Happiness is more than just the absence of sadness or despair. It's a state of well-being that encompasses living a good life, one with a sense of meaning and deep contentment.
- Authentic happiness is achievable by everyone. It involves identifying and harnessing one's strengths and virtues and using them creatively to enhance one's life.
- There are three dimensions of happiness: the Pleasant Life (enjoying life's pleasures), the Good Life (using personal strengths to achieve flow), and the Meaningful...