--- product_id: 5872807 title: "Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment" price: "AR$46322" currency: ARS in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.com.ar/products/5872807-authentic-happiness-using-the-new-positive-psychology-to-realize-your store_origin: AR region: Argentina --- # Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment **Price:** AR$46322 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment - **How much does it cost?** AR$46322 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.com.ar](https://www.desertcart.com.ar/products/5872807-authentic-happiness-using-the-new-positive-psychology-to-realize-your) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description A national bestseller, Authentic Happiness launched the revolutionary new science of Positive Psychology—and sparked a coast-to-coast debate on the nature of real happiness. According to esteemed psychologist and bestselling author Martin Seligman, happiness is not the result of good genes or luck. Real, lasting happiness comes from focusing on one’s personal strengths rather than weaknesses—and working with them to improve all aspects of one’s life. Using practical exercises, brief tests, and a dynamic website program, Seligman shows readers how to identify their highest virtues and use them in ways they haven’t yet considered. Accessible and proven, Authentic Happiness is the most powerful work of popular psychology in years. Review: Excellent, if American culture-bound - I have been using positive psychology for many years, and am a member of the International Positive Psychology Association. However, I'd never read this book till now. Martin writes beautiful, easy to read prose, and, like all great writers, lets you into his own life. He becomes a real person in these pages. His analyses and recommendations are all based on scientific research, and are in accord with accepted best practice. This makes the book an excellent introduction for psychotherapists who are as yet unfamiliar with positive psychology. At the same time, the book is actually designed as a self-help tool for lay people. As such, perhaps it is a little too academic. Any intelligent, educated person will get immense benefits from applying its recommendations, but it may be a struggle for someone who barely completed high school -- and they deserve a good life too. Like many American writers in the field, going back to Abraham Maslow, Martin is enthocentric without realizing it. The very title assumes that, of course, happiness is the goal of life. This is actually untrue for most of the human occupants of this planet. As Viktor Frankl showed, meaning and purpose are far more important, and can lead to contentment in situations that preclude happiness. My only other complaint is about the way notes are organized. References, and frequent interesting comments, are in a separate endnotes section. While reading the first one-third of the book, I kept turning to this section at the end of each page, but it was rather onerous and distracting to do so. All in all, this is a book that will uplift your spirit. If you implement its recommendations, it will change your life for the better. It is a classic of the psychological literature. Dr Bob Rich [...] Review: authentic... - I don’t consider myself a pessimist, but I am definitely not an optimist. So what does that make me? Probably makes me a pessimist in denial. During my teenage years I had a mild anger streak. Luckily with a little self-discipline I was able to overcome that. During college, I had a minor episode with depression. Luckily with friendly support and modern medicine, I was able to overcome that. In the last five years or so, I have experienced some extremely difficult moments that I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy. I think it is a miracle that I was able bounce back from these difficult times. I can attribute my resilience to a myriad of things: great wife, religion, self-awareness, etc. It was a combination of all these things. Over the years, I have read a lot about positive psychology. At first it sounded like cheap psychology but as I dug deeper into I started to see its true value. Instead of focusing on the problems and fixing them, positive psychology focuses on baseline and building on top of it. It was nice to see myself as a muscle to strengthen and not a problem to be solved. If you want clear picture of positive psychology, how it works, how you can use it, then this book will guide you through it perfectly. While reading the book I immediately started rethinking how I approach my wife and my children. It has helped me be a better husband and father. I already bought another book by Seligman that specifically addresses raising children with positive psychology. ## Features - Used Book in Good Condition ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #99,415 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #121 in Cognitive Psychology (Books) #226 in Emotional Mental Health #1,090 in Happiness Self-Help | | Customer Reviews | 4.4 out of 5 stars 1,640 Reviews | ## Images ![Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71zMKLnGpGL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Excellent, if American culture-bound *by D***H on June 8, 2009* I have been using positive psychology for many years, and am a member of the International Positive Psychology Association. However, I'd never read this book till now. Martin writes beautiful, easy to read prose, and, like all great writers, lets you into his own life. He becomes a real person in these pages. His analyses and recommendations are all based on scientific research, and are in accord with accepted best practice. This makes the book an excellent introduction for psychotherapists who are as yet unfamiliar with positive psychology. At the same time, the book is actually designed as a self-help tool for lay people. As such, perhaps it is a little too academic. Any intelligent, educated person will get immense benefits from applying its recommendations, but it may be a struggle for someone who barely completed high school -- and they deserve a good life too. Like many American writers in the field, going back to Abraham Maslow, Martin is enthocentric without realizing it. The very title assumes that, of course, happiness is the goal of life. This is actually untrue for most of the human occupants of this planet. As Viktor Frankl showed, meaning and purpose are far more important, and can lead to contentment in situations that preclude happiness. My only other complaint is about the way notes are organized. References, and frequent interesting comments, are in a separate endnotes section. While reading the first one-third of the book, I kept turning to this section at the end of each page, but it was rather onerous and distracting to do so. All in all, this is a book that will uplift your spirit. If you implement its recommendations, it will change your life for the better. It is a classic of the psychological literature. Dr Bob Rich [...] ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ authentic... *by R***K on September 5, 2019* I don’t consider myself a pessimist, but I am definitely not an optimist. So what does that make me? Probably makes me a pessimist in denial. During my teenage years I had a mild anger streak. Luckily with a little self-discipline I was able to overcome that. During college, I had a minor episode with depression. Luckily with friendly support and modern medicine, I was able to overcome that. In the last five years or so, I have experienced some extremely difficult moments that I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy. I think it is a miracle that I was able bounce back from these difficult times. I can attribute my resilience to a myriad of things: great wife, religion, self-awareness, etc. It was a combination of all these things. Over the years, I have read a lot about positive psychology. At first it sounded like cheap psychology but as I dug deeper into I started to see its true value. Instead of focusing on the problems and fixing them, positive psychology focuses on baseline and building on top of it. It was nice to see myself as a muscle to strengthen and not a problem to be solved. If you want clear picture of positive psychology, how it works, how you can use it, then this book will guide you through it perfectly. While reading the book I immediately started rethinking how I approach my wife and my children. It has helped me be a better husband and father. I already bought another book by Seligman that specifically addresses raising children with positive psychology. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Another valuable self-improvement manual by Seligman *by R***H on July 18, 2005* As a psychologist myself and a big fan of Seligman's previous self-help work, Learned Optimism, I was eager to read this book. Authentic Happiness is based on the Positive Psychology movement, or the idea that psychologists should be helping people feel more happy rather than simply less unhappy. Well-respected psychologist Seligman has a gift for taking years of psychology research and breaking it down into readable yet still compelling evidence to support his theories. He begins with reviewing the components that can affect happiness and how we can work to change these factors with respect to our past, present, and future. The meat of the book, however, lies in Seligman's notion of Signature Strengths, which he views as keys to more lasting fulfillment. Seligman focuses in particular on how to enhance your signature strengths in the areas of love, work, and raising your children (based on many examples from his own child-rearing experiences). He concludes the book by shifting into a slightly more spiritual perspective to discuss attaining a sense of meaning and purpose in life. Seligman is practical in addition to being philosophical, and thus the book contains many self-tests (all of which can also be found on his web site) as well as plenty of practical advice. Overall, however, this book didn't quite resonate with me in the same way that Learned Happiness did, and although I've frequently recommended Learned Happiness to my clients, I see this newer work as being appropriate for a more limited audience. Still, for anyone who chooses to read this book, Seligman's engaging writing style is sure to make it worth your while, and those who are truly motivated to pursue happiness in their lives are likely to benefit enormously. ## Frequently Bought Together - Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment - Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-being - Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.com.ar/products/5872807-authentic-happiness-using-the-new-positive-psychology-to-realize-your](https://www.desertcart.com.ar/products/5872807-authentic-happiness-using-the-new-positive-psychology-to-realize-your) --- *Product available on Desertcart Argentina* *Store origin: AR* *Last updated: 2026-05-22*