The Happiness Track: How to Apply the Science of Happiness to Accelerate Your Success

This book is brilliant - read it and be prepared to reset your mood to happy. Your life won't be the same again - Daily ExpressThrough her research-backed strategies, Emma Seppala not only teaches us how to thrive in our chosen profession, but how to stay true to ourselves-and enjoy every moment of the processAre you a hard-driving, multi-tasking, conscientiously striving professional? Then your ideas about success are probably all wrong-and you need The Happiness Track, Dr. Emma Seppala's investigation into the counterintuitive factors that create career and life success. The best news of all? All these skills are well within your graspBacked by extensive research in psychology and neuroscience, The Happiness Track offers a wealth of insight for changing how we approach our work, our personal lives, and our relationships. It's a carefully researched, engaging look at how to improve ourselves without losing our authenticity or our sanityEmma Seppala convinces us that reconfiguring our brain for happiness can change the way our lives unfold and the way we approach success. A worthwhile read for anyone who wants to achieve a successful and fulfilling life.For decades we've been tied to theories of success that have burned us out and driven us into the ground-because we don't know of any alternatives. The Happiness Track provides us with a highly-readable, science-backed solution to obtaining sustainable success, the sort of success we are all really striving for, that leaves us fulfilled, happy, and healthy.Dr. Seppala turns cutting edge science into a fast-paced, practical book with profound implications. Remarkably, happiness feels good because it is good for our health, relationships, and work. Drawing on research from neuroscience and psychology, and her own ground-breaking work at Stanford, she gives us six powerful ways to turn greater well-being into greater success.This book is a breath of fresh air, helping to bust the myth that we need to do more, better, faster, and more efficiently to be happy. Seppala shows us that by letting go of our relentless striving to achieve, we can realize the calm, joy, and compassion that are already here in the present moment.