Success requires persistence, the ability to not give up in the face of failure. I believe that optimistic explanatory style is the key to persistence.
Doing a kindness produces the single most reliable momentary increase in well-being of any exercise we have tested. - Martin Seligman
Doing a kindness produces the single most reliable momentary increase in well-being of any exercise we have tested.
- Martin Seligman
Well-being cannot exist just in your own head. Well-being is a combination of feeling good as well as actually having meaning, good relationships and… - Martin Seligman
Well-being cannot exist just in your own head. Well-being is a combination of feeling good as well as actually having meaning, good relationships and…
Changing the destructive things you say to yourself when you experience the setbacks that life deals all of us is the central skill of optimism. - Martin Seligman
Changing the destructive things you say to yourself when you experience the setbacks that life deals all of us is the central skill of optimism.
Habits of thinking need not be forever. One of the most significant findings in psychology in the last twenty years is that individuals choose the wa… - Martin Seligman
Habits of thinking need not be forever. One of the most significant findings in psychology in the last twenty years is that individuals choose the wa…
The aim of Positive Psychology is to catalyze a change in psychology from a preoccupation only with repairing the worst things in life to also buildi… - Martin Seligman
The aim of Positive Psychology is to catalyze a change in psychology from a preoccupation only with repairing the worst things in life to also buildi…
Life inflicts the same setbacks and tragedies on the optimist as on the pessimist, but the optimist weathers them better. - Martin Seligman
Life inflicts the same setbacks and tragedies on the optimist as on the pessimist, but the optimist weathers them better.
Psychology should be just as concerned with building strength as with repairing damage - Martin Seligman
Psychology should be just as concerned with building strength as with repairing damage
The good life is using your signature strengths every day to produce authentic happiness and abundant gratification. - Martin Seligman
The good life is using your signature strengths every day to produce authentic happiness and abundant gratification.
Just as the good life is something beyond the pleasant life, the meaningful life is beyond the good life. - Martin Seligman
Just as the good life is something beyond the pleasant life, the meaningful life is beyond the good life.
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