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Anger, unlike fear or sadness, is a moral emotion. It is "righteous." It aims not only to end the current trespass but to repair any damage done. It also aims to prevent further trespass by disarming, imprisoning, emasculating, or killing the trespasser. ~ Martin E.P. Seligman
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Practiced regularly (twice a day), relaxation or meditation prevents angry arousal. ~ Martin E.P. Seligman
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I strongly disapprove of torture and have never and would never provide assistance in its process. ~ Martin Seligman
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Despite the rise of the mental health profession, people are becoming increasingly vulnerable to depression. Why? Martin Seligman, a brilliant psychologist with no religious ax to grind, has a theory that it's because we have replaced church, faith, and community with a tiny little unit that cannot bear the weight of meaning. That's the self. We're all about the self. We revolve our lives around ourselves. ~ John Ortberg
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In 1965, a psychologist named Martin Seligman started shocking dogs.
He was trying to expand on the research of Pavlov--the guy who could make dogs salivate when they heard a bell ring. Seligman wanted to head in the other direction, and when he rang his bell, instead of providing food, he zapped the dogs with electricity. To keep them still, he restrained them in a harness during the experiment. After they were conditioned, he put these dogs in a big box with a little fence dividing it into two halves. He figured if the dog rang the bell, it would hop over the fence to escape, but it didn't. It just sat there and braced itself. They decided to try shocking the dog after the bell. The dog still just sat there and took it. When they put a dog in the box that had never been shocked before or had previously been allowed to escape and tried to zap it--it jumped the fence.
You are just like these dogs.
If, over the course of your life, you have experienced crushing defeat or pummeling abuse or loss of control, you convince yourself over time that there is no escape, and if escape is offered, you will not act--you become a nihilist who trusts futility above optimism.
Studies of the clinically depressed show that they often give in to defeat and stop trying. . .
Any extended period of negative emotions can lead to you giving in to despair and accepting your fate. If you remain alone for a long time, you will decide loneliness is a fact of life and pass up op ~ David McRaney
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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 accomplishment. ~ Martin Seligman
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We deprive our children, our charges, of persistence. What I am trying to say is that we need to fail, children need to fail, we need to feel sad, anxious and anguished. If we impulsively protect ourselves and our children, as the feel-good movement suggests, we deprive them of learning-persistence skills. ~ Martin Seligman
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Money, amazingly, is losing its power ... Our economy is rapidly changing from a money economy to a satisfaction economy. ~ Martin Seligman
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On the relationship side, if you teach people to respond actively and constructively when someone they care about has a victory, it increases love and friendship and decreases the probability of depression. ~ Martin Seligman
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Just as the good life is something beyond the pleasant life, the meaningful life is beyond the good life. ~ Martin Seligman
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When our grandparents failed, they had comfortable spiritual furniture to rest in. They had, for the most part, their relationship to God, their relationship to a nation they loved, their relationship to a community and a large extended family. Faith in God, community, nation, and the large extended family have all eroded in the last forty years, and the spiritual furniture that we used to sit in has become threadbare. ~ Martin E.P. Seligman
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Positive emotion alienated from the exercise of character leads to emptiness, to inauthenticity, to depression, and, as we age, to the gnawing realization that we are fidgeting until we die. ~ Martin Seligman
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Reaching beyond where you are is really important. ~ Martin Seligman
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The dirty little secret of both clinical psychology and biological psychiatry is that they have completely given up on the notion of cure. ~ Martin Seligman
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I'm trying to broaden the scope of positive psychology well beyond the smiley face. Happiness is just one-fifth of what human beings choose to do. ~ Martin Seligman
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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
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The pleasant life: a life that successfully pursues the positive emotions about the present, past, and future. ~ Martin Seligman
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It is the combination of reasonable talent and the ability to keep going in the face of defeat that leads to success. ~ Martin Seligman
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The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness. ~ Martin Seligman
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Positive, optimistic sales people sell more than pessimistic sales people. ~ Martin Seligman
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The pursuit of happiness is enshrined in the Declaration of Independence as a right of all Americans, as well as on the self-improvement shelves of every American bookstore. Yet the scientific evidence makes it seem unlikely that you can change your level of happiness in any sustainable way. It suggests that we each have a fixed range for happiness just as we do for weight. And just as dieters almost always regain the weight they lose, sad people don't become lastingly happy, and happy people don't become lastingly sad. ~ Martin Seligman
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Once again the Naderites were onstage attacking the Educational Testing Service - the organization which develops and administers the scholastic aptitude tests ... the reason for the wax is that the E.T.S. tests persist in showing some people to be smarter than others. And if some people are smarter than others, there might actually be some justification for an economic system in which some people have more money and authority than others. ~ Daniel Seligman
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The fundamentalist religions simply seem to offer more hope for a brighter future than do the more liberal, humanistic ones. ~ Martin Seligman
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I don't mind being wrong, and I don't mind changing my mind. ~ Martin Seligman
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What are the enabling conditions that make human beings flourish? How do we get from zero to plus five? ~ Martin Seligman
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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 building the best qualities in life. ~ Martin Seligman
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Afghanistan changed him, but Iraq sculpted him. ~ Melissa Seligman
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Sexual performance problems, such as impotence and frigidity, are 70 to 90 percent changeable. But a homosexual who wants to be a heterosexual - that's close to unchangeable. And a transsexual - say a man who believes he's really a woman in a man's body - is completely unchangeable; you'd have to change the body to conform to the psyche. ~ Martin Seligman
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The word 'happiness' always bothered me, partly because it was scientifically unwieldy and meant a lot of different things to different people, and also because it's subjective. ~ Martin Seligman
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I've been bothered about time generally and our tripartite division of time into past, present, and future. I think I know what the past is, and I think I know what future is, but I'm really not comfortable with the notion of present. ~ Martin Seligman
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Perhaps they'd been conditioned by all the quarantines and blackouts, all the invisible boundaries CSIRA erected on a moment's notice. The rules changed from one second to the next, the rug could get pulled out just because the wind blew some exotic weed outside its acceptable home range. You couldn't fight something like that, you couldn't fight the wind. All you could do was adapt. People were evolving into herd animals.
Or maybe just accepting that that's what they'd always been. ~ Peter Watts
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While you can't control your experiences, you can control your explanations. ~ Martin E.P. Seligman
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It's no surprise that optimistic athletes, managers and teams do better. What's interesting is where they do better. It's in coming back from defeat and acting in the clutch. ~ Martin Seligman
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Whether or not we have hope depends on two dimensions of our explanatory style; pervasiveness and permanence. ~ Martin Seligman
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What determines how much time and deliberate practice a child is willing to devote to achievement? Nothing less than her character. ~ Martin Seligman
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Life satisfaction essentially measures cheerful moods, so it is not entitled to a central place in any theory that aims to be more than a happiology. ~ Martin Seligman
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Years later, when I got to college, I learned about an important theory of psychology called Learned Helplessness, developed by Dr. Martin E. P. Seligman. This theory, backed up by years of research, is that a great deal of depression grows out of a feeling of helplessness: the feeling that you cannot control your environment. ~ Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
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The genius of evolution lies in the dynamic tension between optimism and pessimism continually correcting each other. ~ Martin E.P. Seligman
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The optimist believes that bad events have specific causes, while good events will enhance everything he does; the pessimist believes that bad events have universal causes and that good events are caused by specific factors. When ~ Martin E.P. Seligman
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Ten years ago, when I was on an airplane and I introduced myself to my seatmate, and told them [I was a psychologist], they'd move away from me ... And now when I tell people what I do, they move toward me. ~ Martin Seligman
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Above all, during the interval, change from "ego orientation" to "task orientation." Think: "I know this seems like a personal insult, but it is not. It is a challenge to be overcome that calls on skills I have. ~ Martin E.P. Seligman
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Finding temporary and specific causes for misfortune is the art of hope: Temporary causes limit helplessness in time, and specific causes limit helplessness to the original situation. ~ Martin Seligman
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To the scientists of the Renaissance, your critic was really your ally, helping you advance upon reality. Critics in science are not like drama critics, determining flops and successes. Criticism to scientists is just another means of finding out whether they're wrong, like running another experiment to see if it confirms or refutes a theory. Along with the advocacy principle of the courtroom, it is one of the best ways human beings have evolved to get closer to the truth. ~ Martin Seligman
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Exploders, people who have frequent outbursts of temper, also have more cancer than normal people. ~ Martin E.P. Seligman
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[R]aising children ... was about identifying and amplifying their strengths and virtues, and helping them find the niche where they can live these positive traits to the fullest. ~ Martin E.P. Seligman
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We plant the seeds of resilience in the ways we process negative events. After spending decades studying how people deal with setbacks, psychologist Martin Seligman found that three P's can stunt recovery: (1) personalization - the belief that we are at fault; (2) pervasiveness - the belief that an event will affect all areas of our life; and (3) permanence - the belief that the aftershocks of the event will last forever. The three P's play like the flip side of the pop song "Everything Is Awesome" - "everything is awful." The loop in your head repeats, "It's my fault this is awful. My whole life is awful. And it's always going to be awful." Hundreds ~ Sheryl Sandberg
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I believe psychology has done very well in working out how to understand and treat disease. But I think that is literally half-baked. If all you do is work to fix problems, to alleviate suffering, then by definition you are working to get people to zero, to neutral. ~ Martin Seligman
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I hate myself that I wasn't there for him. I hate that I could not feel it in him. How could I not know what had happened? How could I not hear it in his voice, his comments, or in his demeanor? He needed my help, and I couldn't feel it. ~ Melissa Seligman
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If the point of the inner-child movement is to cure adult problems, it doesn't work. Reliving childhood traumas gives you a nice afterglow, but it lasts only for hours or days. There is no evidence it changes adult problems. ~ Martin Seligman
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The belief that we can rely on shortcuts to happiness, joy, rapture, comfort, and ecstasy, rather than be entitled to these feelings by the exercise of personal strengths and virtues, leads to legions of people who, in the middle of great wealth, are starving spiritually. ~ Martin Seligman
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The goal of a life free of dysphoria is a snare and a delusion. A better goal is of good commerce with the world. Authentic happiness, astonishingly, can occur even in the presence of authentic sadness. ~ Martin Seligman
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Finding permanent and universal causes for misfortune is the practice of despair ... ~ Martin Seligman
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To be a virtuous person is to display, by acts of will, all or at least most of the six ubiquitous virtues: wisdom, courage, humanity, justice, temperance, and transcendence. ~ Martin Seligman
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Positive emotion can be about the past, the present, or the future. The positive emotions about the future include optimism, hope, faith, and trust. Those about the present include joy, ecstasy, calm, zest, ebullience, pleasure, and (most importantly) flow; these emotions are what most people usually mean when they casually-but much too narrowly-talk about "happiness." The positive emotions about the past include satisfaction, contentment, fulfillment, pride, and serenity. ~ Martin Seligman
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Self-esteem cannot be directly injected. It needs to result from doing well, from being warranted. ~ Martin Seligman
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When the individual has a lot of money to spend. individualism becomes a powerful. and profitable, worldview. ~ Martin Seligman
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I have never worked on interrogation; I have never seen an interrogation, and I have only a passing knowledge of the literature on interrogation. With that qualification, my opinion is that the point of interrogation is to get at the truth, not to get at what the interrogator wants to hear. ~ Martin Seligman
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First, you learn to recognize the automatic thoughts flitting through your consciousness at the times you feel worst. ~ Martin E.P. Seligman
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You go into flow when your highest strengths are deployed to meet the highest challenges that come your way. ~ Martin Seligman
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If we just wanted positive emotions, our species would have died out a long time ago. ~ Martin Seligman
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I have spent most of my life working with mental illness. I have been president of the world's largest association of mental-illness workers, and I am all for more funding for mental-health care and research - but not in the vain hope that it will curb violence. ~ Martin Seligman
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If you were an optimistic teen, then you'll be an optimist at 80. People's reactions to bad events are highly stable over a half century or more. ~ Martin Seligman
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Perhaps the single most robust fact across many surveys is that married people are happier than anyone else. ~ Martin Seligman
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One of my worries about America is the epidemic of depression we've been in. One of the possibilities about that is that the 'I' gets bigger and bigger, and the 'we' gets smaller and smaller. ~ Martin Seligman
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At last, psychology gets serious about glee, fun, and happiness. Martin Seligman has given us a gift-a practical map for the perennial quest for a flourishing life. ~ Daniel Goleman
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The meeting [in San Antonio of the National Women's Political Caucus] featured a cattle show at which a herd of Democratic candidates- Glenn, Cranston, Mondale, Hart, and Hollings- pantingly pantomined their fidelity to feminism, stopping just short of a pledge to use nuclear weapons against any states that omit to ratify the Equal Right Amendment. ~ Daniel Seligman
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Rather than giving people an inflated view of themselves, we need to give them concrete reasons to feel good about themselves. ~ Martin Seligman
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Doing a kindness produces the single most reliable momentary increase in well-being of any exercise we have tested. ~ Martin Seligman
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Fifth, you learn to recognize and question the depression-sowing assumptions governing so much of what you do: ~ Martin E.P. Seligman
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Optimistic people generally feel that good things will last a long time and will have a beneficial effect on everything they do. And they think that bad things are isolated: They won't last too long and won't affect other parts of life. ~ Martin Seligman
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The clearer the rules and the limits enforced by parents, the higher the child's self-esteem. The more freedom the child had, the lower his self-esteem. ~ Martin Seligman
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One of my signature strengths is the love of learning, and by teaching, I have built it into the fabric of my life. I try to do some of it every day. ~ Martin Seligman
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Curing the negatives does not produce the positives. ~ Martin Seligman
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The good life is using your signature strengths every day to produce authentic happiness and abundant gratification. ~ Martin Seligman
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There are physical characteristics which are inherited. These include things like good looks, high intelligence, physical coordination. These attributes contribute to success in life, and success in life is a determinant of optimism. ~ Martin Seligman
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Fourth, you learn how to distract yourself from depressing thoughts. ~ Martin E.P. Seligman
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Psychology should be just as concerned with building strength as with repairing damage ~ Martin Seligman
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Third, you learn to make different explanations, called reattributions, and use them to dispute your automatic thoughts. ~ Martin E.P. Seligman
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Flow occurs in your life when your highest skills are matched to challenges that quite exactly meet them. ~ Martin Seligman
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I don't think anyone's found a way of eliminating thoughts of danger and loss. It's rather that, when they're unrealistic, you become an acrobat at marshaling evidence against them. ~ Martin Seligman
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In a society in which individualism is becoming rampant, people more and more believe that they are the center of the world. Such a belief system makes individual failure almost inconsolable. ~ Martin Seligman
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I believe that traditional wisdom is incomplete. A composer can have all the talent of Mozart and a passionate desire to succeed, but if he believes he cannot compose music, he will come to nothing. He will not try hard enough. He will give up too soon when the elusive right melody takes too long to materialize. ~ Martin Seligman
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It used to be that whenever I introduced myself to people and told them I was a psychologist, they would shrink away from me. Because, quite rightly, the impression the American public has of psychologists is, 'You want to know what's wrong with me.' ~ Martin Seligman
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You can have meaning, accomplishment, engagement and good relationships, even if you are dull on the positive affect side. ~ Martin Seligman
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Life inflicts the same setbacks and tragedies on the optimist as on the pessimist, but the optimist weathers them better. ~ Martin Seligman
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On the other hand, permanent causes produce helplessness far into the future, and universal causes spread helplessness through all your endeavors. ~ Martin Seligman
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What humans want is not just happiness. They want justice; they want meaning. ~ Martin Seligman
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I believe it is within our capacity that by the year 2051 that 51 percent of the human population will be flourishing. That is my charge. ~ Martin Seligman
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Positive thinking is the notion that if you think good thoughts, things will work out well. Optimism is the feeling of thinking things will be well and be hopeful. ~ Martin Seligman
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P is positive emotion, E is engagement, R is relationships, M is meaning and A is accomplishment. Those are the five elements of what free people chose to do. Pretty much everything else is in service of one of or more of these goals. That's the human dashboard. ~ Martin Seligman
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People who believe they cause good things tend to like themselves better than people who believe good things come from other people or circumstances. ~ Martin Seligman
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As he moves through his day, sometimes he stops and just stares at me. There is something on the tip of his tongue. But he doesn't say it. I'm not sure he knows what it is. ~ Melissa Seligman
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The defining characteristic of pessimists is that they tend to believe that bad events will last a long time, will undermine everything they do, and are their own fault. The optimists, who are confronted with the same hard knocks of this world, think about misfortune in the opposite way. They tend to believe that defeat is just a temporary setback or a challenge, that its causes are just confined to this one case. ~ Martin Seligman
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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. ~ Martin Seligman
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When it comes to our health, there are essentially four things under our control: the decision not to smoke, a commitment to exercise, the quality of our diet, and our level of optimism. And optimism is at least as beneficial as the others. ~ Martin Seligman
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A raise is like a martini: it elevates the spirit, but only temporarily. ~ Daniel Seligman
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There is no way to imagine what it feels like to be shot at. I will never be with him when he is the most scared. ~ Melissa Seligman
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Pessimistic labels lead to passivity, whereas optimistic ones lead to attempts to change. ~ Martin E.P. Seligman
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Suppose you could be hooked up to a hypothetical 'experience machine' that, for the rest of your life, would stimulate your brain and give you any positive feelings you desire. Most people to whom I offer this imaginary choice refuse the machine. It is not just positive feelings we want: we want to be entitled to our positive feelings. ~ Martin Seligman
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At my parents' house, I recently found a 1950 black-and-white snapshot of a chubby bespectacled warrior holding a three-and-a-half-foot freshly killed rattlesnake. The boy's smile is ecstatic. ~ Martin E.P. Seligman
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