“The optimists and the pessimists: I have been studying them for the past twenty-five years. An important point to make from the most significant findings in psychology in the last twenty five years is that individuals can choose the way they think. what you think when you fail, using the power of “non-negative thinking”. The key is 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, i.e. But failure also can occur when talent and desire are present in abundance but optimism is missing. When failure occurs, it is because either talent or desire is missing. Interestingly he shares the traditional view of achievement that success results from a combination of talent and desire. It will give you the choice of looking at your setbacks in a new light. It will also introduce you to the techniques that have helped thousands of people undo lifelong habits of pessimism and its extension, depression. It will help you discover your own pessimistic tendencies, if you have them, or those of people you care for. This was a fascinating read that delves into the world of optimism and how it can be developed and learnt. With a firm belief in a positive future you can throw yourself into the service of that which is larger than you are.” Finally, optimism is invaluable for the meaningful life. These skills can enable you to use your highest strengths and talents more effectively. The skills you will read about here can increase the duration and intensity of your positive emotions. Learned Optimism can set you on the path to any or all three forms of happiness. For the “Meaningful Life”, you use your highest strengths and talents to belong to and serve something you believe is larger than the self. For the “Engaged Life”, you identify your highest strengths and talents and recraft your life to use them as much as you can in work, love, friendship, parenting, and leisure. For the “Pleasant Life”, you aim to have as much positive emotion as possible and learn the skills to amplify positive emotion. This book sets forward a larger theory about the positive side of life: “happiness” is a scientifically unwieldy notion, but there are three different forms of it you can pursue. In 2002, I published the third book of the series: Authentic Happiness. In 1996, I published The Optimistic Child, which applies the knowledge and the skills you will read about in this volume to teenagers and school children. “ Learned Optimism is the foundation of my thinking about Positive Psychology, and it is the first of the triptych that leads there.
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