“ Depression and helplessness were the same by showing they had the same brain-chemical mechanisms. Martin E.P. Seligman
“ With patients, he pushed and pushed until he had persuaded them to give up the irrational beliefs that sustained their depression. What do you mean you can’t live without love? he would cry. Utter non… Martin E.P. Seligman
“ They argued that these perpetrators have high self-esteem, and that their unwarranted self-esteem causes violence. Baumeister’s work suggests that if you teach unwarrantedly high self-esteem to childr… Martin E.P. Seligman
“ The theory clearly predicts that in the classroom and, as we shall see in the next chapter, the playing field, success will not necessarily go to the most talented. The prize will go to the adequately… Martin E.P. Seligman
“ Second, you learn to dispute the automatic thoughts by marshaling contrary evidence. Martin E.P. Seligman
“ People who made certain kinds of explanations, he believed, are prey to helplessness. Martin E.P. Seligman
“ He formado parte del cisma en la psicología que se conoce como psicología positiva, un movimiento científico y profesional. En 1998, como presidente de la American Psychological Association (APA), apr… Martin E.P. Seligman
“ First, you learn to recognize the automatic thoughts flitting through your consciousness at the times you feel worst. Martin E.P. Seligman
“ After a heated dispute, we each undertook an assignment for the next class: to engage in one pleasurable activity and one philanthropic activity, and write about both. The results were life-changing.… Martin E.P. Seligman
“ Explanatory style is the great modulator of learned helplessness. Optimists recover from their momentary helplessness immediately. Very soon after failing, they pick themselves up, shrug, and start tr… Martin E.P. Seligman
“ Fifth, you learn to recognize and question the depression-sowing assumptions governing so much of what you do: Martin E.P. Seligman
“ Historia. El aspecto privado también necesita mostrarse. La psicología positiva hace a la gente más feliz. Enseñar la psicología positiva, investigar la psicología positiva, usar la psicología positiv… Martin E.P. Seligman
“ When we need spiritual furniture, we look around and see that all the comfortable leather sofas and stuffed chairs have been removed and all that’s left to sit on is a small, frail folding chair: the… Martin E.P. Seligman
“ The skills of becoming happy turn out to be almost entirely different from the skills of not being sad, not being anxious, or not being angry. Martin E.P. Seligman
“ The optimists and the pessimists: I have been studying them for the past twenty-five years. The defining characteristic of pessimists is that they tend to believe bad events will last a long time, wil… Martin E.P. Seligman
“ It turns out, however, that how much life satisfaction people report is itself determined by how good we feel at the very moment we are asked the question. Averaged over many people, the mood you are… Martin E.P. Seligman
“ I used to think that the topic of positive psychology was happiness, that the gold standard for measuring happiness was life satisfaction, and that the goal of positive psychology was to increase life… Martin E.P. Seligman
“ Expectation always introduces an element of bias, because it anticipates outcomes without waiting to see what actually happens. However, if expectations are consistently modified in the face of experi… Martin E.P. Seligman
“ Alcoholics are, in truth, failures, and their failure is a simple failure of will. They have made bad choices, and they continue to do so every day. By calling them victims of a disease, we magically… Martin E.P. Seligman
