Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life
by Martin E. P. Seligman
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Author: Martin E. P. SeligmanEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2006-01-03
ISBN: 1400078393
Number of pages: 336
Publisher: Vintage
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Summary: 5 Stars
Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life by Martin E. P. Seligman, is a book that will help you overcome your pessimistic lifestyle. The author has studied both optimists and pessimists for twenty-five years and determined that pessimist are negative people that believe bad events are their fault that will last a very long time and will undermine everything. Pessimistic people feel helpless and will eventually fall into depression. It's a problem for lots of people especially youths. The author has discovered that optimist believe that defeat is just a temporary setback and even a challenge. But don't worry according to the author "Pessimism is escapable." The book teaches you cognitive skills that will enable you to overcome pessimism and take charge of your life.
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Summary of Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life
Known as the father of the new science of positive psychology, Martin E.P. Seligman draws on more than twenty years of clinical research to demonstrate how optimism enchances the quality of life, and how anyone can learn to practice it. Offering many simple techniques, Dr. Seligman explains how to break an "I-give-up" habit, develop a more constructive explanatory style for interpreting your behavior, and experience the benefits of a more positive interior dialogue. These skills can help break up depression, boost your immune system, better develop your potential, and make you happier..With generous additional advice on how to encourage optimistic behavior at school, at work and in children, Learned Optimism is both profound and practical-and valuable for every phase of life.
Martin Seligman, a renowned psychologist and clinical researcher, has been studying optimists and pessimists for 25 years. Pessimists believe that bad events are their fault, will last a long time, and undermine everything. They feel helpless and may sink into depression, which is epidemic today, especially among youths. Optimists, on the other hand, believe that defeat is a temporary setback or a challenge--it doesn't knock them down. "Pessimism is escapable," asserts Seligman, by learning a new set of cognitive skills that will enable you to take charge, resist depression, and make yourself feel better and accomplish more.
About two-thirds of this book is a psychological discussion of pessimism, optimism, learned helplessness (giving up because you feel unable to change things), explanatory style (how you habitually explain to yourself why events happen), and depression, and how these affect success, health, and quality of life. Seligman supports his points with animal research and human cases. He includes tests for you and your child--whose achievement may be related more to his or her level of optimism/pessimism than ability. The final chapters teach the skills of changing from pessimism to optimism, with worksheet pages to guide you and your child. --Joan Price
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