What Optimists Know - and You Can Learn (Vad optimister vet - och du kan lära dig)

Nicolas Jacquemot

Do you also get ”signs”? Little events that want to tell you something? Regardless of whom you are, we all have a strong inherent power and, actually, a much stronger potential than you might think. It is all about learning to use it in the right way and to find the little things in life that make you feel hope and joy.

 

Positive psychology is the name on the fast growing field of science that deals with finding the glow and one’s own strengths. Nicolas Jacquemot has dug deep in this topic, which for a long time was the class at Harvard University with the highest number of applicants. In this book he presents the research on how to focus the attention on ones inherent positive characteristics and strengths instead of hanging on to personal weaknesses and failures. Nicolas Jacquemot also gives a thorough background and puts the theories in perspective to earlier research. With precise and entertaining examples the reader gets tips on how to set up goals, how to avoid negative thoughts and patterns and how to find optimism and strength. And, how one reaches the creative state called “flow”.

 

Knowledge about positive psychology can be useful both in private life and in your working situation. Everybody knows how important it is with a positive atmosphere in a group at work and apart from having more fun at work, people that enjoy work and their workplace show better results!

 

173 pages

 

Rights sold

Finland: Atena

Sweden: Wahlström & Widstrand

 

Reviews

”The books gives a number of advices on the way to a more positvie life... But most important is probably that it makes us stop and reflect over how we act in our every day life."

Expressen

 

”This lucky pill of a book teaches you to think positive by deliberately identify and challenge negative thoughts. You are taught how to find your unique strengths and every day happiness."

Leva!

 

”What Optimists know - and You Can Learn is interesting, easily accessible and written with humour without becoming to glossy."

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