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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.

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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Success requires persistence, the ability to not give up in the face of failure. I believe that optimistic explanatory style is the key to persistence.
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I believe that traditional wisdom is incomplete.
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