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- “While you can't control your experiences, you can control your explanations.” ― Martin E.P. Seligman, Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life.
- “Authentic happiness derives from raising the bar for yourself, not rating yourself against others.” ― Martin E.P. Seligman, Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment.
- “Curing the negatives does not produce the positives.” ― Martin E.P. Seligman, Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life.
- “Pessimistic labels lead to passivity, whereas optimistic ones lead to attempts to change.” ― Martin E.P. Seligman, What You Can Change . . . and What You Can't*: The Complete Guide to Successful Self-Improvement.
- Martin E. P. Seligman
- 1991
- “While you can't control your experiences, you can control your explanations.” ― Martin E.P. Seligman, Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life.
- “Curing the negatives does not produce the positives.” ― Martin E.P. Seligman, Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life.
- “The genius of evolution lies in the dynamic tension between optimism and pessimism continually correcting each other.” ― Martin E.P. Seligman, Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life.
- “Pessimistic prophecies are self-fulfilling.” ― Martin E.P. Seligman, Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life.
- Martin E. P. Seligman
- 2011
- “I used to think that the topic of positive psychology was happiness, that the gold standard for measuring happiness was life satisfaction, and that the goal of positive psychology was to increase life satisfaction.
- “It turns out, however, that how much life satisfaction people report is itself determined by how good we feel at the very moment we are asked the question.
- “Being in touch with what we do well underpins the readiness to change,” David continued. “This is related to the Losada ratio. To enable us to hear criticism nondefensively and to act creatively on it, we need to feel secure.”
- “Good science requires the interplay of analysis and synthesis. One never knows if basic research is truly basic until one knows what it is basic to. Modern physics came into its own not because of its theories—which can be enormously counterintuitive and highly controversial (muons, wavicles, superstrings, the anthropic principle, and all that)—but because physicists built the atomic bomb and modern nuclear power plants.”
- 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.
- 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.
- Optimism is a tool with a certain clear set of benefits: it fights depression, it promotes achievement and produces better health. Martin Seligman. Fighting, Optimism, Achievement.
- Optimism is invaluable for the meaningful life. With a firm belief in a positive future, you can throw yourself into the service of that which is larger than you are.
Top 10 Martin Seligman Quotes. 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.
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