Author

Books by Kelly McGonigal

Kelly McGonigal is a health psychologist, lecturer at Stanford University, and science director for the Stanford Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education. She holds a PhD in psychology from Stanford and is the author of The Willpower Instinct and The Joy of Movement. Her 2013 TED Talk on the upside of stress became one of the most-viewed TED Talks of all time, prompting her to expand the argument into this book. McGonigal is also a yoga and meditation instructor and integrates contemplative practices with her scientific work.