Learned Optimism

Learned Optimism
Author: Martin E.P. Seligman
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2011-08-10
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 0307803341

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The father of positive psychology draws on more than twenty years of clinical research to show you how to overcome depression, boost your immune system, and make yourself happier. "Vaulted me out of my funk.... So, fellow moderate pessimists, go buy this book." —The New York Times Book Review Offering many simple techniques anyone can practice, 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. 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.

Learned Optimism

Learned Optimism
Author: Martin Seligman
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2018-04-19
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1473684323

In this international bestseller, the father of positive psychology draws on more than twenty years of clinical research to show you how to overcome depression, boost your immune system, and make yourself happier. "Vaulted me out of my funk.... So, fellow moderate pessimists, go buy this book." The New York Times Book Review Sharing simple techniques anyone can practice, Dr. Seligman explains how to break an "I-give-up" habit, develop a more constructive explanatory style for interpreting your behaviour, and experience the benefits of a more positive interior dialogue. With 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.

10 Habits of Truly Optimistic People

10 Habits of Truly Optimistic People
Author: David Mezzapelle
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2015-03-17
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1632280116

Author and business leader David Mezzapelle, author of 2013's best-selling Contagious Optimism, is on a mission to get people to "power their lives with the positive." He has worked with top influencers, business people, and others and observed that each one of these folks had a few things in common — they overcame obstacles, looked forward instead of backwards, made mistakes and learned from them, and, most of all, they stayed positive no matter what. In this silver linings playbook, readers can learn the secrets to living a life filled with joy, abundance, forward momentum, and contagious optimism. Learning these ten habits can jumpstart your life in the same day! The excellent advice, inspiring stories, suggested actions, and insights from David Mezzapelle and his contributors will help readers become unstoppable optimists.

The Optimism Bias

The Optimism Bias
Author: Tali Sharot
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2011-06-14
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0307379833

Psychologists have long been aware that most people maintain an irrationally positive outlook on life—but why? Turns out, we might be hardwired that way. In this absorbing exploration, Tali Sharot—one of the most innovative neuroscientists at work today—demonstrates that optimism may be crucial to human existence. The Optimism Bias explores how the brain generates hope and what happens when it fails; how the brains of optimists and pessimists differ; why we are terrible at predicting what will make us happy; how emotions strengthen our ability to recollect; how anticipation and dread affect us; how our optimistic illusions affect our financial, professional, and emotional decisions; and more. Drawing on cutting-edge science, The Optimism Bias provides us with startling new insight into the workings of the brain and the major role that optimism plays in determining how we live our lives.

The Antidote

The Antidote
Author: Oliver Burkeman
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2012-11-13
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1429947608

Self-help books don't seem to work. Few of the many advantages of modern life seem capable of lifting our collective mood. Wealth—even if you can get it—doesn't necessarily lead to happiness. Romance, family life, and work often bring as much stress as joy. We can't even agree on what "happiness" means. So are we engaged in a futile pursuit? Or are we just going about it the wrong way? Looking both east and west, in bulletins from the past and from far afield, Oliver Burkeman introduces us to an unusual group of people who share a single, surprising way of thinking about life. Whether experimental psychologists, terrorism experts, Buddhists, hardheaded business consultants, Greek philosophers, or modern-day gurus, they argue that in our personal lives, and in society at large, it's our constant effort to be happy that is making us miserable. And that there is an alternative path to happiness and success that involves embracing failure, pessimism, insecurity, and uncertainty—the very things we spend our lives trying to avoid. Thought-provoking, counterintuitive, and ultimately uplifting, The Antidote is the intelligent person's guide to understanding the much-misunderstood idea of happiness.

Contagious Optimism

Contagious Optimism
Author: David Mezzapelle
Publisher: Cleis Press
Total Pages: 411
Release: 2013-06-11
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1936740419

David Mezzapelle was inspired to write this uplifting book based on his life's experiences and his own contagious optimism. He has influenced many people with his outlook and this book offers optimism to others around the globe. Contagious Optimism includes stories and parables of amazing life turnarounds from real people world-wide. A compendium of encouragement, Contagious Optimism also includes advice and guidance from business leaders, visionaries and professionals. Nowadays, many people have lost confidence in themselves and the world around them due to personal hardship along with economic and political uncertainty worldwide. Contagious Optimism shows readers that it’s possible to FIND the silver lining in every cloud. Developed by the team that brought you Random Acts of Kindness, this book is like Chicken Soup for the Soul meets Pay It Forward, on steroids! Contagious Optimism is pure inspiration that will lift hearts, open minds, and create a movement of pass-it-on hope and happiness. Featured stories and endorsements from "contagious optimists" such as: Michael Beckwith - Founder of the single largest interfaith church in America: LA's Agape. Nancy Ferrari - The "Oprah of AM Radio" Daniel Tully - Chairman Emeritus of Merrill Lynch and one of the top executives to ever grace Wall Street.

There Is a Completely Different Way to Live Your Life

There Is a Completely Different Way to Live Your Life
Author: Karin Boucher
Publisher: Balboa Press
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2021-04-15
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1982265973

This book is for the person that has done a great deal of work for personal growth and knows that there is more to understand and want to continue through a process of how you can learn to view your existence in a completely different way. The simple isn't always easy, as you will notice when you are led through how your awareness can change. What if we started to think big and where we included our fellow man. Where kindness and the ability to have long term will to do good, becomes a natural way of being. Not only for our fellow man but for the whole planet. You can continuously change your perception, and with that, all of you. You can process life differently and become flexible and open to find new solutions continually. By following the book, you can, through personal reflections, experience a transformation, and gain another awareness and conciseness. A transformation process where codes of life can be cracked, and you obtain a changed existential awareness and integrated within you. This transformation might be the internal structural change that the world needs in the paradigm changes that are going on. In the process, you will learn how to release old self-centered defense patterns and behaviors. You will create a platform for a completely different way of looking at and lead your life. With total accountability for your acts and actions, you will able to exist for yourself and then for others with a natural humanity. Over the years, I have tried to find out what it means to take full personal responsibility for myself. What personal responsibility means in a broader context, and when I started to get it, a new world opened up, and a completely different way of looking at life and this is what I want to share. Nothing is cut into the stone, and everything can change, not at least the knowledge of how you function. When you accept that you can change and that your subjectivity can continuously be revised, it is when you stop being governed by your own and others' limitations.

The Optimistic Child

The Optimistic Child
Author: Martin E. P. Seligman
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2007-09-17
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0547416539

New York Times bestselling author Martin E. P. Seligman's The Optimistic Child is "the first major work to provide an effective program for preventing depression in childhood — and probably later in life" (Aaron T. Beck, author of Love is Never Enough). The epidemic of depression in America strikes 30% of all children. Now Martin E. P. Seligman, the bestselling author of Learned Optimism, and his colleagues offer parents and educators a program clinically proven to cut that risk in half. With this startling research, parents can teach children to apply optimism skills that can curb depression, boost school performance, and improve physical health. These skills provide children with the resilience they need to approach the teenage years and adulthood with confidence. For more than thirty years the self-esteem movement has infiltrated American homes and classrooms with the credo that supplying positive feedback, regardless of the quality of performance, will make children feel better about themselves. But in this era of raising our children to feel good, the hard truth is that they have never been more depressed. As Dr. Seligman writes in this provocative new book, "Teaching optimism is more than, I realized, than just correcting pessimism...It is the creation of a positive strength, a sunny but solid future-mindedness that can be deployed throughout life — not only to fight depression and come back from failure, but also to be the foundation of success and vitality."

A Little SPOT of Optimism

A Little SPOT of Optimism
Author: Diane Alber
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020-03-27
Genre: Ability
ISBN: 9781951287290

In this boxed set, children are introduced to common life skills: optimisim, courage, thankfulness, finding your talent, teamwork, creativity, perseverance and generosity.