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The good life is using your signature strengths every day to produce authentic happiness and abundant gratification.
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Not only do happy people endure pain better and take more health and safety precautions when threatened, but positive emotions undo negative…
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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,…
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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,…
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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…
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Habits of thinking need not be forever. One of the most significant findings in psychology in the last twenty years is that…
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In your own life, you should take particular care with endings, for their color will forever tinge your memory of the entire…
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Curing the negatives does not produce the positives.
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When well-being comes from engaging our strengths and virtues, our lives are imbued with authenticity.
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.
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