Big Ideas tagged with "Martin Seligman"
- Martin Seligman: The Three P’s
- Martin Seligman: The Science of Happiness
- Martin Seligman: Jobs vs. Careers vs. Callings
- Martin Seligman: Savor
- Martin Seligman: Learned Optimism
- Martin Seligman: Signature Strengths
- Richard Koch: What's Easy?
- Martin Seligman: Optimism vs. Positive Thinking + Explanatory Styles!
- Marcus Aurelius: For What Were You Made?
- Martin Seligman: Learned Helplessness
- Martin Seligman: Met Life & Optimism
- How’s Your Explanatory Style?
- Martin Seligman: Optimism & The NBA
- Seneca: Your Ideal State
- Abraham Maslow: Know Thyself!
- Krishna: Selfless Service
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Whether or not we have hope depends on two dimensions of our explanatory style; pervasiveness and permanence. 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. On the other hand, permanent causes produce helplessness far into the future, and universal causes spread helplessness through all your endeavors. Finding permanent and universal causes for misfortune is the practice of despair... The optimistic style of explaining good events is the opposite of that used for bad events: It's internal rather than external. 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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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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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.