Tal ben shahar biography
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Happiness speaker Tal Ben-Shahar has taught a variety of courses at Harvard University. The courses involved teachings on “Positive Psychology,” and “The Psychology of Leadership”.
Tal Ben-Shahar teaches ethics, leadership, happiness, resilience, self-esteem, mindfulness, and goal setting executives, the general public, and populations that are at risk. He wrote several books, including Happiness: Life-Changing Lessons from My Barber, and Happier: Learn the Secrets to Daily Joy and Lasting Fulfillment.
Speaker Tal Ben-Shahar co-founded the Happiness Studies Academy, Maytiv, Potentialife, and Happier TV.
The Happiness Studies Academy aims to educate leaders who are willing to grow their interpersonal and personal skills. They teach happiness by employing a holistic and interdisciplinary approach. The HSA defines happiness as the experience of wholebeing.
In order to truly comprehend, seek, and achieve wholebeing, we must adopt an interdisciplinary approach, drawing on philosophy, psychology, history, literature, economics, biology, theology, and many other subjects. This interdisciplinary approach is one that unites rather than dividing people, institutions, and ideas.
Rich content taught in a unique way contributes to and enlightens people about the concept of happiness,
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Tal Ben-Shahar
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Tal Ben-Shahar
Tal Ben-Shahar is an Israeli author, lecturer, and consultant who is most famous for teaching Harvard University's most popular course.
Born in Ramat Gan, Israel to an engineer and biology teacher, Ben-Shahar earned his BA in psychology and philosophy from Harvard University, where he would also later receive his Ph.D in organizational behavior. He became interested in positive psychology in 1993 as an undergraduate student at Harvard.
His teaching courses at Harvard on "Positive Psychology" and the "Psychology of Leadership" famously became some of the most popular courses in the university's history with an enrollment total of over 1,400 students.
Ben-Shahar consults and lectures around the world to executives of multi-national corporations, Fortune 500 companies, educational institutions and the general public. He also currently teaches at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, Israel. According to Ben-Shahar, the most exciting part of his research is applying positive psychology ideas to schools and the way children are taught in the education systems in various countries.
Ben-Shahar is also the author of the international bestsellers Happier: Learn the Secrets to Daily Joy and Lasting Fulfillment and Being Happy: You Don