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Character Strengths Matter: How to Live a Full Life

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Character Strengths Matter: How to Live a Full Life

By: Shannon Polly, Kathryn H. Britton
Narrated by: Adam Grupper, Sheryl Stern, Shannon Polly
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What are the elements of good character? The Values in Action (VIA) project identified 24 qualities such as creative, authentic, loving, forgiving, kind, persistent, prudent, and brave, calling them character strengths. If you are curious about your own strengths, get the free online survey at viacharacter.org.

Character Strengths Matter: How to Live a Full Life brings the 24 character strengths to life with stories involving children, teenagers, adults, and elders; occurring in family life and business settings. Research shows that using character strengths in new ways for a week makes people happier up to six months later. Based on the unusual premise that a key way to build strength is to act "as if" you have that strength already, the audiobook includes short passages to try on strengths.

More than 30 authors contributed stories to this audiobook, including George Vaillant, the 35-year director of Harvard's Study of Adult Development.

Many leaders endorse the audiobook, including the "father of positive psychology" Dr. Martin E. P. Seligman.

This audiobook is bound to make you learn something new, be inspired about humanity, and have a chance to play with character strengths. This audiobook will make you happier.

©2015 Shannon Polly & Kathryn Britton (P)2019 Shannon Polly & Kathryn Britton
Personal Success Happiness Young Adult
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"My friend, Chris Peterson, would have loved this book. It brings to life with personal stories, practical recommendations, wisdom, and humor the dry scholarship that he did in Character Strengths and Virtues. Chris was very down-to-earth and I am sure he would have concurred in my enthusiastically recommending this book to everyone who works with character strengths in the real world." (Martin E. P. Seligman, author of Authentic Happiness and Flourish.)

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working to help others see their strengths means I need to be better at identifying mine and theirs too. great investment in semantics for sure

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