Joy is a Risk Worth Taking

Kelly McGonigal (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2026
Headline Press (Verlag)
9781035413720 (ISBN)

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Based on her popular course at Stanford, bestselling author and renowned psychologist Kelly McGonigal offers a groundbreaking look at joy and how we can embrace it

What if joy isn't something you have to wait for, but something you can choose?

In this paradigm-shifting book, bestselling author and renowned psychologist Kelly McGonigal reveals why joy is one of our core existential resources. Research shows that joy gives life meaning, and helps us feel hope and closeness to others. But in spite of its clear benefits, there is a tension underlying our experience of joy. We may resist joy because it feels like a warning that something bad is going to happen next. Or, we may not let ourselves embrace a moment of uplift because it feels frivolous or too fleeting to trust.

Weaving together personal storytelling with insights from psychology, neuroscience, and medicine, McGonigal offers tangible ways we can overcome these obstacles. You'll discover:

- The three main functions of joy and how it works in the brain
- The joyful experiences that light you up
- How to counteract joy dampening, or our tendency to avoid positive emotions
- 20 "joy experiments" you can begin implementing into your life today

Joy is a spark people feel in small moments, but its powerful effects are long. McGonigal offers practical ways we can shift our focus toward creating joy, savouring it, sharing it, and celebrating it. Motivating and uplifting, Joy Is a Risk Worth Taking show that living with joy is an act of courage.

Kelly McGonigal is the internationally bestselling author of The Joy of Movement, The Upside of Stress, and The Willpower Instinct, among others. Her TED Talk "How to Make Stress Your Friend" is one of the most viewed of all time, with over 30 million views. Her popular audio program 40 Days to Positive Change shows how to harness positive emotions to fuel personal growth. She co-created the Stanford Compassion Cultivation Training, a program now taught worldwide to deepen people's experience of empathy, self-compassion, and social connection.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	10.11.2026
Sprache	englisch
Maße	135 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
ISBN-13	9781035413720 / 9781035413720
Zustand	Neuware