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Flow occurs in your life when your highest skills are matched to challenges that quite exactly meet them.
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
Martin E. P. Seligman
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Martin Elias Peter Seligman
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Doing a kindness produces the single most reliable momentary increase in well-being of any exercise we have tested.
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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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The good life is using your signature strengths every day to produce authentic happiness and abundant gratification.
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On the relationship side, if you teach people to respond actively and constructively when someone they care about has a victory, it increases love and friendship and decreases the probability of depression.
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