Resources

BOOKS | Recommended Reading | Positive Psychology
“Writing is the painting of your voice” ~ Voltaire

‘ATOMIC HABITS: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones’ 
By James Clear, 2018

‘BEFORE HAPPINESS: The 5 Hidden Keys to achieving success, spreading happiness, and sustaining positive change’
By Shawn Achor, 2013

‘BIG POTENTIAL: How Transforming the Pursuit of Success Raises our Achievement, Happiness and Well-Being’
By Shawn Achor, 2018

‘CHARACTER STRENGTHS MATTER:
How to Live a Full Life’
By Shannon Polly and Kathryn Britton,
authors & editors, 2015

’CHARACTER STRENGTHS AND VIRTUES:
 A Handbook and Classifications’
 By Christopher Peterson and Martin Seligman, 2004

‘CHATTER: The Voice in Our Head, Why it Matters, and how to Harness it’
By Ethan Kross, 2022

‘FLOURISH: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-being’
By Martin Seligman , 2012

‘FLOW : The Psychology of Optimal Experience’   
By Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, 2008

‘GIVE AND TAKE: Why Helping others drives our Success’
By Adam Grant, 2014

‘GRATITUDE WORKS:A 21 Day Program for creating Emotional Prosperity’
By Robert Emmons, 2013

‘GRIT: The Power of Passion and Perseverance’
 By Angela Duckworth,  2018

‘THE HAPPINESS ADVANTAGE:  The 7 Principles of Positive Psychology that Fuel Success & Performance at Work’
By Shawn Achor, 2011

‘HARDWIRING HAPPINESS:
The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm and Confidence’
By Rick Hanson, 2013

‘HIDDEN POTENTIAL: The Science of Achieving Greater Things’
By Adam Grant, 2023

‘THE HOPE CIRCUIT: A Psychologist’s Journey from Helplessness to Optimism’
By Martin Seligman, 2018

‘THE HOW OF HAPPINESS:
A New Approach to getting the Life you Want’
By Sonja Lyubomirsky, 2008

‘IKIGAI: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life’
By Héctor García and Francesc Miralles, 2017

‘THE JOY OF LEADERSHIP: How Positive Psychology can Maximize your Impact (and make you Happier) in a Challenging World’
By Tal Ben-Shahar and Angus Ridgway, 2017

‘LEARNED OPTIMISM: How to Change your Mind and your Life’
By Martin Seligman, 2006

‘LOVE 2.0: Finding Happiness and Health in Moments of Connection’
By Barbara Fredrickson, 2013

‘MAN’S SEARCH FOR MEANING’
By Victor Frankl, 2006

‘MAKE YOUR JOB A CALLING:
How the Psychology of Vocation can Change your Life at Work’
By Bryan Dik and Ryan Duffy, 2013

‘MINDSET: The New Psychology of Success
How we can Learn to Fulfill our Potential’
By Carol Dweck, 2007

‘POSITIVITY:
Top-Notch Research reveals the 3 to 1 Ratio that will change your Life’
By Barbara Fredrickson, 2009

‘POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY COACHING:
Putting the Science of Happiness to work for your Clients’
By Robert Biswas-Diener and Ben Dean, 2007

‘THE POWER OF CHARACTER STRENGTHS:
Appreciate and Ignite your Positive Personality’
By Ryan Niemiec and Robert McGrath, 2019

‘THE POWER OF HABIT:
Why we Do What we Do in Life and Business’
By Charles Duhigg, 2014

‘ORIGINALS
How Non-Conformists Move the World’
By Adam Grant, 2017

‘PURPOSE AND MEANING:
In the Workplace’
Edited by Bryan Dik, Zinta Byrne and Michael Steger

‘PURSUING THE GOOD LIFE:
100 Reflections on Positive Psychology’
By Christopher Peterson, 2012

‘RESILIENT: How to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength, and Happiness’
By Rick Hanson with Forrest Hanson, 2018

‘THANKS!
How Practicing Gratitude can make you Happier’
By Robert Emmons, 2008

‘THINK AGAIN: The Power of Knowing what You Don’t Know’
By Adam Grant, 2021

‘THE UPSIDE OF YOUR DARK SIDE:
Why being your Whole Self – Not just your ‘Good Self’ – Drives Success and Fulfillment’
By Todd Kashdan and Robert Biswas-Diener, 2015

‘TOMORROWMIND:
Thriving at Work with
Resilience, Creativity, and Connection
– Now and in an Uncertain Future’
By Gabriella Rosen Kellerman and Martin Seligman, 2023


AUDIO:

Progressive Relaxation , 2015, by Sushama Kirtikar