How To Be Happy: Stop Chasing Happiness, Learn the 5 Skills to Create It Instead - Softcover

Edwards, Declan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1394421117 ISBN 13: 9781394421114

Verlag: Wiley, 2026

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You don't have to search endlessly for happiness. You can practice it.

You've worked hard, achieved your goals, and followed the well-meaning advice. Yet that sense of deep fulfilment still feels just out of reach. But the problem was never you. It's that no one ever taught you that happiness is a skillset, not a destination.

Declan Edwards ― "That Happiness Guy" ― has spent over a decade coaching thousands of people through BU Happiness College, an award-winning program grounded in positive psychology research. How to Be Happy distills that coaching experience into five core skills that build lasting well-being from the inside out, one intentional choice at a time.

• Understand your emotions and work with them instead of against them
• Tune out the noise and reconnect with what truly matters to you
• Train your brain to notice the good without ignoring life's challenges
• Get clear on who you really are ― your values, your strengths and what makes you feel loved
• Build a life with real direction, meaning and daily purpose

How to be Happy is for people who want real tools, not inspirational slogans. Complete with practical exercises, insightful case studies and research-backed strategies that meet you exactly where you are. Whether you're a growth-minded professional, an overwhelmed achiever or simply ready to feel more alive, now is the time to progress towards the happy and fulfilling life you deserve ― one skill and one step at a time.

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DECLAN EDWARDS is a positive psychology researcher, educator and global voice on the skills and science of happiness. His mission is to spread a ripple effect that makes the world happier.

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THE ONLY HAPPINESS HOW-TO GUIDE YOU WILL EVER NEED

You’ve been working hard, chasing your goals and following the ‘rules’ for success. Yet that sense of deep fulfilment still feels just out of reach. The problem was never you, it was the map you were given for happiness.

Declan Edwards―researcher, founder of BU Happiness College and ‘That Happiness Guy’―has spent over a decade dismantling the myths of happiness and wellbeing to uncover what actually works. Filled with practical exercises, insightful case studies and research-backed strategies, How To Be Happy gives you an evidence-based framework to help you move from surviving to flourishing, and to make happiness a central part of your life.

Discover how to:

• work with your emotions, instead of against them
• tune out the noise and reconnect with what truly matters to you
• train your brain to notice the good, without ignoring life’s challenges
• get clear on your values and your strengths
• build a life with real direction, meaning and purpose.

Stop waiting for happiness to happen to you. Gain the science and the strategies to cultivate a better life―one intentional skill at a time.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Wiley
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1394421117
• ISBN 13: 9781394421114
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Wiley-VCH GmbH; product_safety@wiley.com; ; Boschstrasse 12; Weinheim; 69469; Deutschland