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Positive, optimistic sales people sell more than pessimistic sales people.
Martin Seligman
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Martin Seligman
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 12
Bridge Player
Psychologist
University Teacher
Writer
Albany
New York
Martin E. P. Seligman
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Martin Elias Peter Seligman
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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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People who believe they cause good things tend to like themselves better than people who believe good things come from other people or circumstances.
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The good life is using your signature strengths every day to produce authentic happiness and abundant gratification.
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Optimism generates hope...hope releases dreams...dreams set goals...enthusiasm follows
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Money, amazingly, is losing its power... Our economy is rapidly changing from a money economy to a satisfaction economy.
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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.
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Psychology is much bigger than just medicine, or fixing unhealthy things. Its about education, work, marriage - its even about sports. What I want to do is see psychologists working to help people build strengths in all these domains.
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I believe that traditional wisdom is incomplete. A composer can have all the talent of Mozart and a passionate desire to succeed, but if he believes he cannot compose music, he will come to nothing. He will not try hard enough. He will give up too soon when the elusive right melody takes too long to materialize.
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Flow occurs in your life when your highest skills are matched to challenges that quite exactly meet them.
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Well-being cannot exist just in your own head. Well-being is a combination of feeling good as well as actually having meaning, good relationships and accomplishment.
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The pleasant life: a life that successfully pursues the positive emotions about the present, past, and future.
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Finding permanent and universal causes for misfortune is the practice of despair.
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By activating an expansive, tolerant, and creative mindset, positive feelings maximize the social, intellectual, and physical benefits that will accrue.
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Once a depressed person becomes active and hopeful, self-esteem always improves. Bolstering self-esteem without changing hopelessness, without changing passivity, accomplishes nothing.
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Self-esteem cannot be directly injected. It needs to result from doing well, from being warranted.
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There is one aspect of happiness that's been well studied, and it's the notion of flow. Ask yourselves, when for you does time stop? When are you truly at home, wanting to be no place else?
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When well-being comes from engaging our strengths and virtues, our lives are imbued with authenticity.
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Ten years ago, when I was on an airplane and I introduced myself to my seatmate, and told them [I was a psychologist], they'd move away from me. ... And now when I tell people what I do, they move toward me.
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To be a virtuous person is to display, by acts of will, all or at least most of the six ubiquitous virtues: wisdom, courage, humanity, justice, temperance, and transcendence.
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