Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment

Wisdom and knowledge Courage Love and humanity Justice Temperance Spirituality and transcendence

pokes our pet tortoise, Abe, instead of “No,” I say “Gentle,”

fulfillment, pride, and serenity.

POSITIVE emotions about the future include faith, trust, confidence, hope, and optimism.

Finding permanent and universal causes of good events along with temporary and specific causes for misfortune is the art of hope;

a person gives up for—with permanent explanations for bad events producing long-lasting helplessness, and temporary explanations producing resilience. The pervasiveness dimension determines whether helplessness cuts across many situations or is limited to the original arena.

embraces two very distinct kinds of things: pleasures and gratifications. The pleasures are delights that have clear sensory and strong emotional components, what philosophers call “raw feels”: ecstasy, thrills, orgasm, delight, mirth, exuberance, and comfort. They are evanescent, and they involve little, if any, thinking. The gratifications are ac

luxuriating (indulging the senses).

The task is challenging and requires skill We concentrate There are clear goals We get immediate feedback We have deep, effortless involvement There is a sense of control Our sense of self vanishes Time stops

Chastity, silence, magnificence, vengeance—all serious virtues in one time and place or another—seem now to us alien, even undesirable.