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Doing a kindness produces the single most reliable momentary increase in well-being of any exercise we have tested.
Martin Seligman
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Martin Seligman
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 12
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Albany
New York
Martin E. P. Seligman
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Martin Elias Peter Seligman
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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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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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Finding temporary and specific causes for misfortune is the art of hope: Temporary causes limit helplessness in time, and specific causes limit helplessness to the original situation.
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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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