Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment
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- ISBN13: 9780743222983
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In this national bestseller — Martin Seligman’s most stimulating, persuasive book to date — the acclaimed leader of Learned Optimism introduces yet another revolutionary thought. Drawing on groundbreaking scientific research, Seligman shows how Positive Psychology is shifting the profession’s paradigm away from its narrow-minded focus on pathology, victimology, and mental illness to positive emotion and mental health. Happiness, studies show, is not the result of excellent genes or luck. It can be cultivated by identifying and nurturing traits that we already possess — including kindness, inventiveness, humor, optimism, and generosity.
Seligman provides the tools you need in order to learn your most positive traits or strengths. Then he clarifies how, by frequently calling upon these “signature strengths” in all the crucial realms of life — health, relationships, career — you will not only renovate natural buffers against misfortune and negative emotion, but also achieve new and sustainable levels of authentic contentment, gratification, and meaning.
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one should be prohibited to sell garbage like this. excellent only for the pockets of the one who aimed at reaching poor souls and tested on poor dogs. SHAME ON YOU MR!!!
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This is the first time I have written a review. In this particular case, I felt it was my responsibility to forewarn potential readers of the disturbing contents of this book. I’ve read several “self help” books on subjects ranging from introversion to optimistic thinking. I establish this book to be of small help and reasonably disturbing. The book is filled with tests and self evaluations. I do not judge it is necessary to know where one falls on the optimist/worrywart scale. Regularly, such tests can only further depress or make nervous an already vulnerable reader. In Chapter 5, the leader uses an extremely horrific and disturbing tale to illustrate a five step process to forgiveness. I was further sickened by the leader’s list of “bodily pleasures” in Chapter 7. Rather than feeling uplifted by this book, I establish myself feeling upset and outraged by the leader’s egotism, ignorance, perversion and insensitivity. I caution anyone seeking advice on optimism
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Sorry to say, Martin Seligman’s atheism permeates every page of this book building it not only offensive towards Christians like myself but wholly depressing as well. After the first chapter or two, I couldn’t take any more of his propaganda and so I skipped to the end to see what his conclusions might be. Flatly refusing in a supernatural God who can intervene into his creation to produce miracles, Seligman’s conclusion is that the natural result of evolution (which expands upon Darwin’s original theory on natural selection and mutation of organisms to encompass society and institutions) will produce a perfect society free from poverty and crime that resembles “God.” This utopia being the result of “win-win” scenarios is the only “God” that Seligman believes in, and his authentic happiness is rooted in part in this optimism about mankind’s future society.
Needless to say, this mumbo giant (based on “scientific” studies like looking at a name’s picture in a high-school yearbook to predict how long they would live) not only insulted my intelligence and my faith, but it made me mad that I had paid hard earned money for this book. I am taking it back to the store tomorrow so that Seligman and Simon & Schuster will not see a penny.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Professor, “no mind” embraces authentic happiness and authentic pessimism, unauthentic happiness and unauthentic pessimism–and all such things apart from your Buddha Scenery. In adage what you have said, you have said exactly nothing. Herr Hitler rumor has it that establish fantastic contentment in knowing his strengths and actualizing them. I reflect he was utterly convinced that what he was trying to do was for the excellent of all and very much positive.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
Early on the leader tells how he proved to concept of “learned helplessness” through his experiments where he administered electric shocks on confined dogs until they gave up and just lay there and whimpered.
I threw the book away at that point. This “scientist” shouldn’t be rewarded for his senseless cruelty that proves nothing. We don’t support your science, Herr Doctor Seligman!
Get the book from a library if you must, but don’t reward him for his “experiments.” It could have been your dog this moral idiot experimented on.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5