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Learned Optimism

How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

by Martin Seligman

|Vintage©2006·336 pages

Did you know you can learn optimism? Yep. And, unfortunately, we can also learn helplessness. Whether we're helpless or optimistic is one of the biggest predictors of whether we're emotionally happy/healthy or depressed/unhealthy so this is BIG. In this Note, we'll explore some great Ideas on how to get our optimism on by creating more empowering explanations of what's happening in our lives.


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Martin Seligman
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Martin Seligman

the founder of Positive Psychology
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