Everything you want to achieve in life from a successful career, thriving relationships, improved health, or simply to increase your happiness and well being everything starts with habits. Everything!
HABITS AND HAPPINESS combines years of research by experts in the field of habits, neuroscience, traditional and positive psychology, and teaches you how to apply this new information in a very simple and practical way. This book will help you understand your habits: why you have them, why you can or cannot change them, and how they can work to help you live a great life.
Implementing habitual behavior in accordance with this book will help you become happier and more successful, will improve your wellbeing, and will assist you to live the life you’ve always wanted to live.
We can learn so much about ourselves by learning about our habits. Our wellbeing increases significantly when we understand the reasons we do certain things, when we learn how to change and introduce new habits if necessary, and when we apply that knowledge effectively in our lives. My goal is not to present a scientific research paper that few will understand, but rather to help you improve your wellbeing by introducing good new habits and changing bad old habits. At the same time I will provide the research supporting these ideas.
“In this brief, practical, and important book, Braco Pobric offers a blueprint for bringing about positive change in your life. Read it and, more importantly, apply it!”
– Tal Ben Shahar, PhD, author of the international bestsellers Happier and Being Happy; formerly Professor of the largest course at Harvard University–“Positive Psychology”
“Habits and Happiness importantly reminds us that, scientifically, happiness can be a choice if we change our behavior. Pobric creates a great link between research and practice in our daily lives.”
– Shawn Achor, NY Times bestselling author of the Happiness Advantage and Before Happiness
“Scientists who study happiness have conducted hundreds of brilliant scientific studies (many of which are summarized in this book), yet scientists rarely communicate their findings to the general public in an accessible manner. In this book, Braco Pobric picks up where scientists left off and provides an outstanding tutorial on the practical application of scientific research to change habits and increase happiness.”
-Chad Burton, PhD, Social Scientist
“Braco’s approach is a practical one, rooted in positive psychology principles and research. Adhering to these ideas will help you make those vexing behavioral changes you have been wanting to make but in a way you perhaps had never thought of.
The result? Most likely: greater happiness, health, and overall well-being.”
– Ryan M. Niemiec, PsyD, Author of several books, including Mindfulness and Character Strengths: A Practical Guide to Flourishing; and Education Director, VIA Institute on Character
“There are few books that stress the importance of dedicated work when it comes to Habits and Happiness. I applaud Braco Pobric for having the insight and the courage to do so in his well-researched and compassionately written book. I am sure that it will help many to instigate lasting change.”
– Andrea F. Polard, PsyD, Author of A Unified Theory of Happiness: An East-Meets-West Approach to Fully Loving Your Life.
