- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fundamentalist religions simply seem to offer more hope for a brighter future than do the more liberal, humanistic ones.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some find that very optimistic people have benign illusions about themselves. These people may think they have more control, or more skill, than they actually do. Others have found that optimistic people have a good handle on reality. The jury is still out.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
Psychology is much bigger than just medicine, or fixing unhealthy things. It's about education, work, marriage - it's even about sports. What I want to do is see psychologists working to help people build strengths in all these domains.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Positive
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think we pursue positive relationships whether or not they bring us engagement or happiness.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- America
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm all for past influences; the question is whether they are deterministic. Freud and the behaviorists argue that what we are at any given moment is billiard balls whose past determines our future course. That doesn't take into account that we are forever generating internal representations of positive futures and choosing among them.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Optimism
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is an interesting scientific dispute about realism and optimism. Some find that very optimistic people have benign illusions about themselves. These people may think they have more control, or more skill, than they actually do. Others have found that optimistic people have a good handle on reality. The jury is still out.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rather than giving people an inflated view of themselves, we need to give them concrete reasons to feel good about themselves.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
What humans want is not just happiness. They want justice; they want meaning.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think you can be depressed and flourish, I think you can have cancer and flourish, I think you can be divorced and flourish. When we believed that happiness was only smiling and good mood, that wasn't very good for people like me, people in the lower half of positive affectivity.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020