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You go into flow when your highest strengths are deployed to meet the highest challenges that come your way.

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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
Martin E. P. Seligman
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Martin Elias Peter Seligman
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