Steve A. Banno, Jr. is an award-winning social studies educator and creator of the widely-popular high school course exploring the science of happiness, kindness, and altruism, which he has taught over his twenty-five-year career. He lives near Cape Cod, Massachusetts with his wife, son and their dog.
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Preface Introduction Chapter 1: An Invitation to Teach What Matters Chapter 2: Redefining Success Precept #1: In order to live a successful life, we must figure out what it means to get a life. Precept #2: Money, as a marker of success, buys happiness just not in the ways we think it does. Precept #3: Keep it real. Develop an inner integrity to live successfully Precept #4: Creating and committing to meaningful life goals liberate us from the tyranny of passive living. Chapter 3: Happiness as an Inside Job. Developing emotional courage, befriending difficult emotions, cultivating positive emotions, optimism and an attitude of gratitude. Precept #5: To be human is to be emotional, so befriend your emotions. Precept #6: Let positivity reign. Cultivate positivity, positive emotions and optimism. Chapter 4: It's About Time: Giving Some Intention to Our Attention Precept #7: Maximize aliveness by examining your relationship with time. Precept #8: Exploring mindfulness helps to better understand the anatomy of the present and calmness in those moments. Precept #9: Savor more and improve your relationship with time. Precept #10: Redefine your relationship with time by rediscovering playfulness and flow. Chapter 5: The Heart of Altruism: Compassion, Human Goodness, and Helping Others. Precept #11: The world is not broken. There is another side to human nature. One that is constructive, benevolent, and good. Precept #12: Heroism is always accessible and able to be chosen. We are all heroes in waiting. Precept #13: In search of the antecedents of human goodness altruism turns up not only in nature but also in the evolutionary history of animals and humans. Precept #14: Human nature is full of goodness, altruism, compassion and kindness. Acknowledgements Bibliography
Preface Introduction Chapter 1: An Invitation to Teach What Matters Chapter 2: Redefining Success Precept #1: In order to live a successful life, we must figure out what it means to get a life. Precept #2: Money, as a marker of success, buys happiness just not in the ways we think it does. Precept #3: Keep it real. Develop an inner integrity to live successfully Precept #4: Creating and committing to meaningful life goals liberate us from the tyranny of passive living. Chapter 3: Happiness as an Inside Job. Developing emotional courage, befriending difficult emotions, cultivating positive emotions, optimism and an attitude of gratitude. Precept #5: To be human is to be emotional, so befriend your emotions. Precept #6: Let positivity reign. Cultivate positivity, positive emotions and optimism. Chapter 4: It's About Time: Giving Some Intention to Our Attention Precept #7: Maximize aliveness by examining your relationship with time. Precept #8: Exploring mindfulness helps to better understand the anatomy of the present and calmness in those moments. Precept #9: Savor more and improve your relationship with time. Precept #10: Redefine your relationship with time by rediscovering playfulness and flow. Chapter 5: The Heart of Altruism: Compassion, Human Goodness, and Helping Others. Precept #11: The world is not broken. There is another side to human nature. One that is constructive, benevolent, and good. Precept #12: Heroism is always accessible and able to be chosen. We are all heroes in waiting. Precept #13: In search of the antecedents of human goodness altruism turns up not only in nature but also in the evolutionary history of animals and humans. Precept #14: Human nature is full of goodness, altruism, compassion and kindness. Acknowledgements Bibliography
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