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Martin Seligman
Sequence ladder
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What this book knows
Flourishing is measurable and buildable: positive emotion, engagement, meaning, relationships, and accomplishment constitute well-being, not just happiness.
self-and-identity
The five elements are positive emotion, engagement, meaning, positive relationships, and accomplishment. A handy mnemonic is PERMA.
FVNU-RC-012Removing the disabling conditions is not remotely the same as building the enabling conditions of life. We must have positive emotion, meaning, accomplishment, and positive relationships.
FVNU-RC-037The goal of positive psychology in well-being theory is plural and important: flourishing as the goal, not merely maximizing happiness.
FVNU-RC-020work-as-meaning
A calling is done for its own sake. You would do it anyway, with no pay and no promotions. 'Try to stop me!' is what your heart cries.
FVNU-RC-053mind-and-cognition
The massive prefrontal cortex continually uses billions of connections to simulate social possibilities and then choose the optimal course of action.
FVNU-RC-017People who habitually think it will last forever and undermine everything become helpless readily. We call them pessimists.
FVNU-RC-133Illuminates
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