Discover the ten most life-enhancing behaviours that will empower you to find purpose and overcome obstacles. Author Martha Beck combines years of research and practice to reveal how adding stillness, compassion, truth, desire, creativity, risk, play, treats, gratitude, and rest to your daily routine can transform your life.

10 Steps to a Happier Life

The Joy Diet

Discover a new formula for success based on recent positive psychology research. Author Shawn Achor, a Harvard University researcher, argues that happiness is the key to success, not the other way around. Learn practical and actionable principles for gaining a competitive edge in any field, including the Tetris Effect, the Zorro Circle, and the power of social investment. A must-read for anyone looking to excel in a world of increasing workloads and stress, and achieve the extraordinary in work and life.

How a Positive Brain Fuels Success in Work and Life

The Happiness Advantage

Un libro básico en la redefinición de la subjetividad humana. Como dice Richard Flaste del New York Times Magazine «una gran contribución a la educación del público acerca del carácter positivo de los más profundos anhelos humanos». La psicología, la filosofía y el humanismo se unen para responder a la pregunta fundamental: ¿qué es la felicidad? Best-seller mundial.

The Psychology of Optimal Experience (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

Fluir

Discover how creativity can make life worth living with this insightful book. Based on 30 years of research and 100 interviews with exceptional people, the author explores the creative process and what leads to those moments of excitement for artists and scientists. Gain a new understanding of why creativity needs to be cultivated, and why it's necessary for the future of our world.

Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention

Creativity

Discover the transformative power of play with this groundbreaking book by a leading expert in the field. Through more than six-thousand "play histories" of humans from all walks of life, the author demonstrates that play is essential to our health, social skills, creativity, problem-solving abilities, and more. Backed by the latest research in neuroscience, biology, psychology, and social science, this book proves why play might just be the most important work we can ever do.

How it Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul

Play

¿Qué es de verdad la felicidad? ¿Cómo funciona nuestra mente al respecto? ¿Sabemos realmente qué nos hace felices?

¿Por qué se le perdona al ser amado antes una infidelidad que dejar los platos sucios en el fregadero? ¿Por qué la gente que ve pagaría más por evitar quedarse ciega que un ciego por recuperar la visión? ¿Por qué la gente que comparte mesa se empeña en pedir platos diferentes en lugar de pedir lo que de verdad les apetece? ¿Por qué los pacientes recuerdan los largos tratamientos médicos como menos dolorosos que los cortos? ¿Por qué los compradores son más felices cuando no pueden devolver algo que han comprado? ¿Por qué no podemos recordar una canción mientras escuchamos otra? ¿Por qué la fila para pagar en el supermercado siempre se ralentiza en cuanto nos incorporamos a ella?.... Divertido, inteligente, rebosante de sugerencias y al mismo tiempo riguroso. Un libro imprescindible sobre la felicidad. Un acontecimiento editorial en Estados Unidos, elogiado por la crítica y recomendado por los más prestigiosos expertos en la materia.

Daniel Gilbert, profesor de psicología de la prestigiosa universidad de Harvard explica qué es de verdad la felicidad. Deshecha tópicos, cuestiona verdades incuestionables y propone una nueva visión del tema que sorprenderá y cambiará la manera de entender la felicidad de los lectores. Un libro imprescindible sobre la felicidad

Tropezar con la felicidad

Two great spiritual masters share their own hard-won wisdom about living with joy even in the face of adversity.
 
 The occasion was a big birthday. And it inspired two close friends to get together in Dharamsala for a talk about something very important to them. The friends were His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu. The subject was joy. Both winners of the Nobel Prize, both great spiritual masters and moral leaders of our time, they are also known for being among the most infectiously happy people on the planet.

From the beginning the book was envisioned as a three-layer birthday cake: their own stories and teachings about joy, the most recent findings in the science of deep happiness, and the daily practices that anchor their own emotional and spiritual lives. Both the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Tutu have been tested by great personal and national adversity, and here they share their personal stories of struggle and renewal. Now that they are both in their eighties, they especially want to spread the core message that to have joy yourself, you must bring joy to others.

Most of all, during that landmark week in Dharamsala, they demonstrated by their own exuberance, compassion, and humor how joy can be transformed from a fleeting emotion into an enduring way of life.

Alcanza la felicidad duradera en un mundo en cambio constante

El libro de la alegría

¿En qué consiste la excelencia? ¿Puede cualquiera llegar a ser el mejor en aquello que emprenda o acaso la genialidad está reservada a unos pocos superdotados? Figura pública desde que a los nueve años ganara su primer campeonato de ajedrez y catapultado a la fama cuando el libro de su padre, Buscando a Bobby Fisher, fue convertido en un filme de éxito, Josh Waitzkin sabe lo que significa llegar a lo más alto. El apasionante testimonio de sus años como campeón de ajedrez primero y de Tai-Chi después, no deja lugar a la excelencia es un proceso al alcance de todos? si descubrimos la esencia del verdadero aprendizaje. Con ejemplos procedentes de todo tipo de disciplinas, Waitzkin comparte con sus lectores los hallazgos que ha ido atesorando a lo largo de años de concentración y un camino de autoconocimiento que guiará a cualquiera dispuesto a dar lo mejor de sí mismo, ya sea en el trabajo o en cualquier otra disciplina.

An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance

El arte de aprender

Discover the intriguing world of finite and infinite games with this fascinating book. Author James P. Carse delves into the two types of games and explores the purpose of each. While finite games are played to be won, infinite games focus on continuing the play. Carse uncovers the impact these games have on our lives, from the nature of power and glory to the subtleties of love and science. This rich and insightful read is a journey of observation and enlightenment that will leave you thinking for years to come.

Finite and Infinite Games

This book teaches readers how to adopt the attitudes and techniques of improvisational theater to live an unscripted life. With thirty years of experience and thirteen simple strategies, including "Say Yes" and "Make Mistakes, Please," the author shows readers how to think on their feet and take on life's challenges with skill and humor.

Curiosity List: Games, Joy, Flow