UPDATE: See my Art of Self-Coaching archive for all current course materials, including slides, class readings, and additional resources.
Here's a condensed set of slides from the fourth session on Happiness in The Art of Self-Coaching, a new course I'm teaching at the Stanford Graduate School of Business this Spring, and the readings for this session are shown below. If you'd like to learn more about the topics being covered, here's my syllabus.
CLASS 4: HAPPINESS
- The How of Happiness (Sonja Lyubomirsky)
- Chapter 2 (excerpt), pages 38-68, “How Happy Are You and Why?”
- Chapter 3, pages 69-79, “How to Find Happiness Activities That Fit Your Interests, Your Values, and Your Needs”
- Pursuing the Good Life (Christopher Peterson)
- Chapter 21, pages 71-74, “Heritability and Happiness”
- Activity-Fit Diagnostic (in Lyubomirsky)
- VIA Survey of Character Strengths
- OPTIONAL: The Science of Subjective Well-Being (Michael Eid and Randy Larson, editors)
Here are some other readings that I referenced in class or that have informed my approach to today's topic:
- Character Strengths and Virtues: A Handbook and Classification (Christopher Peterson and Martin Seligman)
- Authentic Happiness (Martin Seligman)
- Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi)
- The Nicomachean Ethics (Aristotle)
- The Science of Happiness (Ed Diener)
- Decoding Keys to a Healthy Life (Alvin Powell)
- Man's Search for Meaning (Viktor Frankl)
- Genetic vs. Heritable Trait (Razib Khan)
And here are some related posts of my own:
