# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tal-ben-shahar
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:37:03.053Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tal-ben-shahar"
name: "Tal Ben-Shahar"
slug: "tal-ben-shahar"
description: "Tal Ben-Shahar, also known as Tal David Ben-Shachar, is an Israeli professor and writer in the areas of positive psychology and leadership. He has subsequently written several best-selling books and, in 2011, co-founded Potentialife with Angus Ridgway, a company that provides leadership programs."
tagline: "American psychologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tal_Ben_Shahar.tif?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1970"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.99
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.401409333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.talbenshahar.com"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tal_Ben-Shahar"
    title: "Tal Ben-Shahar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tal_Ben-Shahar"
    title: "Tal Ben-Shahar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tal_Ben-Shahar"
    title: "Tal Ben-Shahar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%98%D7%9C_%D7%91%D7%9F_%D7%A9%D7%97%D7%A8"
    title: "טל בן שחר"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tal_Ben-Shahar"
    title: "Tal Ben-Shahar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A1%94%E7%88%BE%C2%B7%E7%8F%AD%E5%A4%8F%E5%93%88"
    title: "塔爾·班夏哈"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump