Video: Sonja Lyubomirsky, Ph.D. on happiness & positive psychology

Video about the positive psychology iPhone app developed with Dr. Sonja Lyubomirsky from the Live Happy site.

See another video interview with Dr. Lyubomirsky below.

In her book The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want she explains, “50 percent of individual differences in happiness are governed by genes, 10 percent by life circumstances, and the remaining 40 percent by what we do and how we think.”

Here is a clip from the AUDIOBOOK

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  02.27.09   By Douglas Eby
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  1. Beth Banning says:

    I believe that true happiness is what you make life out of. :) Some people want to see things positively or negatively – and this greatly affect their level of happiness.

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