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In a society in which individualism is becoming rampant, people more and more believe that they are the center of the world. Such a belief system makes individual failure almost inconsolable.

Martin Seligman

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Martin Seligman
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 12
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Psychologist
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Albany
New York
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Martin Elias Peter Seligman
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