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Happiness

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Happiness is a general term for the positive emotion we feel and, if we want to be happier, is worth understanding more.

Happiness: The basic emotion.
Three levels of happiness: Happy, happier and happier still.
What makes people happy?: Outer and inner reasons.
Happiness as a motivator: Getting going with happiness.
Subjective Well-Being: Cognitive and affective views.
Three Ingredients of Happiness: Meaning, hope and purpose.
Two pleasures: Body and higher.
Three pleasures: Sensory, aesthetic, accomplishment.
Four pleasures: Basic ways of finding happiness.
16 Areas for Happiness: Where to look to get happy.
Epicurean pleasure: Kinetic and katastemic.
What Does Not Make People Happy?: Here's what.
Relative happiness: We measure our happiness against that of others.
Evolution and Pleasure: There's deep purpose for happiness.
The Set-point Theory of Happiness: We have a natural level.
Bentham's 14 Pleasures: The utilitarian view.
Marks' Five Ways to Well-Being: From UK research.

So what?

Learn what makes you happy. Learn what makes other people happy. Then see if you can kill two birds with one stone.

And of course also you can use the promise of happiness in any persuasion.

See also

Ways to Happiness

Achor, S. (2010). The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles that Fuel Success and Performance at Work, New York: Crown Publishing

Emmons, R. (2007). Thanks!: How the New Science of Gratitude Can Make You Happier, Boston:Houghton Mifflin

Lyubormirsky, S. (2007). The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want, Penguin Press

Seligman, M.E.P. (2002). Authentic Happiness, New York: Free Press

Csikszentmihalyi, M. (1998). Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life, New York: Basic Books

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Disciplines

* Argument
* Brand management
* Change Management
* Coaching
* Communication
* Counseling
* Game Design
* Human Resources
* Job-finding
* Leadership
* Marketing
* Politics
* Propaganda
* Rhetoric
* Negotiation
* Psychoanalysis
* Sales
* Sociology
* Storytelling
* Teaching
* Warfare
* Workplace design

Techniques

* Assertiveness
* Body language
* Change techniques
* Closing techniques
* Conversation
* Confidence tricks
* Conversion
* Creative techniques
* General techniques
* Happiness
* Hypnotism
* Interrogation
* Language
* Listening
* Negotiation tactics
* Objection handling
* Propaganda
* Problem-solving
* Public speaking
* Questioning
* Using repetition
* Resisting persuasion
* Self-development
* Sequential requests
* Storytelling
* Stress Management
* Tipping
* Using humor
* Willpower

Principles

Explanations

* Behaviors
* Beliefs
* Brain stuff
* Conditioning
* Coping Mechanisms
* Critical Theory
* Culture
* Decisions
* Emotions
* Evolution
* Gender
* Games
* Groups
* Habit
* Identity
* Learning
* Meaning
* Memory
* Motivation
* Models
* Needs
* Personality
* Power
* Preferences
* Research
* Relationships
* SIFT Model
* Social Research
* Stress
* Trust
* Values

Theories

* Alphabetic list
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