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exercise called gratitude letters developed by Martin Seligman, one of the fathers of positive psychology.

Like Maier and Seligman’s dogs, many traumatized people simply give up. Rather than risk experimenting with new options they stay stuck in the fear they know.

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

As Seligman explained to Fortune magazine, the people most likely to succeed are those who combine “reasonable talent with the ability to keep going in the face of defeat.”

began by asking all of the students to introduce themselves—not

finally to the peaks of lasting fulfillment: meaning and purpose.

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

The foundational insight of Beck’s new approach was that the same objective event—losing a job, getting into an argument with a coworker, forgetting to call a friend—can lead to very different subjective interpretations. And it is those interpretations—rather than the objective events themselves—that can give rise to our feelings and our behavior.

we saw something really amazing. The more depressed people with the growth mindset felt, the more they took action to confront their problems, the more they made sure to keep up with their schoolwork, and the more they kept up with their lives. The worse they felt, the more determined they became!