On April 26, 2019, we had a question-and-answer call with Ryan Niemiec, PsyD, is author of eight books including his newest book, coauthored with Robert McGrath: The Power of Character Strengths: Appreciate and Ignite Your Positive Personality. Ryan is an award winning positive psychologist, coach, and a widely traveled international presenter.
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At the VIA Institute…
Ryan’s aggregates the science and best practices involving character strengths and disseminates these findings in practical ways to people. In this vein, Ryan connects with thought leaders, scientists, educators, and practitioners around applications of these topics. He develops (or co-develops) VIA’s courses, professional and consumer reports, and programs. He offers Character Strengths Coaching helping individuals apply strengths for personal and professional development. He’s a columnist for Live Happy magazine, and as a blogger for Psychology Today, PsycCentral, ThriveGlobal, and the VIA Institute, he’s written several-hundred lay-friendly articles in positive psychology.
On a personal level….
Ryan and his wife have three children, all ages 6 or under. He enjoys bringing character strengths, mindfulness, and savoring to his relationships and his own self-development. Ryan’s signature strengths are hope, love, curiosity, fairness, honesty, perspective, and appreciation of beauty. He enjoys spending quality time with his family, traveling, playing basketball, watching positive psychology movies (and The Walking Dead), following Michigan State athletics, playing online chess, collecting vintage Pez dispensers, and collecting stingray and komodo dragon figures.
Robert E. McGrath, Ph.D. is Professor of Psychology at Fairleigh Dickinson University. He has published extensively on the topic of character and virtue. He has collaborated with psychologists, philosophers, and educators on the essential elements of character and how to encourage its development. Bob’s top strengths of bravery, curiosity, honesty, zest and self-regulation have helped shape him into the psychologist and professor he is today. He lives with his wife and very spoiled kitty outside New York City.
“Carry this book in your back pocket. Let it become your faithful friend that nudges you, at every point in your journey, to unlock your potential.”
No matter where you are in life–searching for happiness, working toward a goal, longing for a better relationship, or feeling content and settled–focusing on your character strengths adds a whole new dimension. Recent research shows that when you understand and activate your positive personality traits, you become more resilient, manage stress better, and find greater fulfillment in life.
In The Power of Character Strengths: Appreciate and Ignite Your Positive Personality, you’ll be expertly guided by leading authorities through your 24 strengths. You’ll soon see all the ways these strengths are your best-kept secret for boosting your well-being. Discover how to appreciate what’s best in you and champion strengths in the people you care about most.
As a bonus, you’ll practice putting your strengths into action with Strengths Builder, an easy-to-learn, four-step, research-backed program.
The Power of Character Strengths is a must-have resource for building your best life.
Finally, Ryan Niemiec and Bob McGrath–who have been on the frontlines of our understanding of how to nurture the best within us–wrote this much-needed book! This is the most scientifically valid and useful book on character strengths to date. The focus on 24 character strengths is highly accessible and of benefit for anyone–young, old, professional, self-employed, unemployed, student, or military–who wants to better understand their potential and learn concrete strategies to bring out the best in themselves and others.
–Scott Barry Kaufman, Ph.D., Author of Ungifted: Intelligence Redefined and Co-Author of Wired to Create: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Creative Mind
Living by our signature strengths is the only way to live, and this book contains everything one could need to do just that.
–Dr. Roger Bretherton, Principal Lecturer, School of Psychology, University of Lincoln (UK)
Did you know you have a way within you to discover all that is good and right about yourself? It is mind-expanding and life enhancing! After you discover your strengths with the VIA Survey, use this book as the framework for a fun, doable, and mind-blowing recipe for how you can begin to shine a positivity light on your life right now!
–Judy Krings, coach and psychologist
Here is a book that can change your life like it did mine.
–Kristen Carter, Positive Psychology Coach and Writer
Viacharacter.org The VIA Institute site which gets 10,000 visitors per day.
Free resources on the VIA site.
Video: Ryan and Tal Ben Shahar on “Happier Talk” (25 mins)
Ryan’s Psychology Today blog, “What Matters Most?”
Ryan’s Twitter: @ryanVIA
Four of Ryan’s Seven Books:
