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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.

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The good life is using your signature strengths every day to produce authentic happiness and abundant gratification.
Not only do happy people endure pain better and take more health and safety precautions when threatened, but positive emotions undo negative…
Positive emotion can be about the past, the present, or the future. The positive emotions about the future include optimism, hope, faith,…
I believe that traditional wisdom is incomplete. A composer can have all the talent of Mozart and a passionate desire to succeed,…
Success requires persistence, the ability to not give up in the face of failure. I believe that optimistic explanatory style is the…
Habits of thinking need not be forever. One of the most significant findings in psychology in the last twenty years is that…
In your own life, you should take particular care with endings, for their color will forever tinge your memory of the entire…
Curing the negatives does not produce the positives.
When well-being comes from engaging our strengths and virtues, our lives are imbued with authenticity.
The aim of Positive Psychology is to catalyze a change in psychology from a preoccupation only with repairing the worst things in…
In a society in which individualism is becoming rampant, people more and more believe that they are the center of the world.…
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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I'm trying to broaden the scope of positive psychology well beyond the smiley face. Happiness is just one-fifth of what human beings… — Martin Seligman
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