Tal Ben-Shahar has 4 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 4 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.7★ across 25 ratings. The most-rated is Happier.
Happier
Summary
Can we really learn to be happy? Yes, we can. Each semester, nearly 1,400 students sign up for Harvard professor Tal Ben-Shahar's life-changing class "How to Get Happy". Currently it's the hottest course at Harvard, taken by 20 percent of graduates. In Happier, Professor Ben-Shahar brings the ideas of the Ivory Tower to Main Street, distilling the lessons and exercises from his course into an audio trove of practical wisdom. Grounded in the Positive Psychology movement, based on years of researching the works of scientists, academics, and philosophers, Happier emphasizes the importance of pursuing a life of both pleasure and meaning. Lessons, exercises, and "Happiness Boosters" cover self-esteem, empathy, friendship, love, achievement, creativity, spirituality, and humor. Questions will help listeners identify activities that will make them happier immediately, as they apply what they've learned to school, work, and personal relationships. You'll discover that happiness, not money, is the ultimate currency, that we can't be happy unless we first give ourselves permission to be human, and that happiness isn't so elusive after all.
©2007 Tal Ben-Shahar (P)2007 HighBridge Company
Pursuit of Perfect
Summary
We're all laboring under our own and society's expectations to be perfect in every way: to look younger, to make more money, to be happy all the time. But according to Tal Ben-Shahar, the New York Times best-selling author of Happier, the pursuit of perfect may actually be the number-one internal obstacle to finding happiness. Applying cutting-edge research in the field of positive psychology - the scientific principles taught in his wildly popular course at Harvard University - Ben-Shahar takes us off the impossible pursuit of perfection and directs us to the way to happiness, richness, and true fulfillment. He shows us the freedom derived from not trying to do it all right all the time and the real lessons that failure and painful emotions can teach us. He provides exercises for self reflection, meditations, and "Time-Ins" to help you rediscover what you really want out of life.
©2009 Tal Ben-Shahar (P)2009 HighBridge Company.
Choose the Life You Want
Summary
We have more choices than we realize. In fact, according to positive psychology expert Tal Ben-Shahar, our entire life is made of choices, large and small. It is what we choose moment by moment and day by day - to do, to feel, to experience - that determines how happy and fulfilled we are. Every moment, then, is an opportunity to make a choice that will bring us greater happiness. Ben- Shahar presents 100 such opportunities, some simple, such as whether to frown or smile; others complex, such as whether to hold on to what we know or change our perspective - helping us identify them, recognize their importance, and make the right choice. Each choice includes a brief explanation plus a story or study that makes it accessible and relatable. It’s up to you to choose the life you want!
©2012 Tal Ben-Shahar. Recorded by arrangement with The Experiment, LLC. (P)2012 HighBridge Company
L'apprentissage de l'imperfection
Summary
Drôle, accessible, rassurant, un petit traité pour se libérer d'un mal insidieux : le perfectionnisme. Après le succès de L'apprentissage du bonheur, un livre audio de travail indispensable pour apprendre à s'accepter, même imparfait, et être enfin soi-même. Se dépasser. Faire toujours mieux. Être plus efficace. Tous les jours, nous nous imposons des objectifs impossibles à atteindre. Et plus nos exigences de performance sont élevées, plus nous sommes sous pression, saisis par le doute, paralysés par la peur de l'échec, condamnés à la frustration permanente. Dans son livre audio, Tal Ben-Shahar nous encourage à nous affranchir de la quête d'une impossible perfection. Il nous offre une mine d'exercices simples et intelligents : apprendre à être des parents "suffisamment bons", pratiquer la compassion pour soi, la chasse aux "oui mais", se donner la "permission d'être humain", appliquer la "règle d'or du juste milieu"... Des recettes pour nous accomplir en toute liberté, un irrésistible manuel pour être bien ? et surtout pas parfait !
©2016 Éditions Belfond (P)2016 Productions Alexandre Stanké inc.