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Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment by Seligman (2002) and Outliers: The story of success by Gladwell (2008). Both authors focus on the positive ways of looking at life and the factors that influence the lives of successful people rather that dwelling on the negative.

There are many factors in our lives that contribute to success and happiness and it isn't how high a person's IQ might be.

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What factors do you think bring happiness and success? Can they be tested?

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This solution describes important factors involved in happiness and success. Some factors discussed are the overall mental and physical health of an individual and the value of working in a job you actually love. The explanation is given in 132 words.

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One of the biggest factors in my opinion, that brings happiness and success, is the overall mental and physical health of an individual. This is due to the fact that healthy individuals have the ...

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