3 Quotes & Sayings By Martin Ep Seligman

Martin E.P. Seligman is the James B. Duke Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, director of the Positive Psychology Program at the Center for Healthy Minds, and founding director of the Positive Psychology Center at the University of Pennsylvania. He is best known for his pioneering research on learned helplessness, positivity bias, and what he calls "exuberance" (the quest to be happy) Read more

He has published more than 300 research articles and has written or edited twenty books, including Authentic Happiness, Flourish, Learned Optimism, Learned Helplessness, Learned Optimism and Well-being, Helplessness in Humans, Happy People Have More Daughters, Stumbling on Happiness, The Pleasures and Pains of Work: The Meaning of Work in Life, The Optimistic Child: Proven Steps To Raising Children With A High Hopes Ratio And Unconditional Love , The Power of Self-Esteem: A New Approach to Growing Up Well , Against Depression: How To Reclaim Your Life With the New Mood Therapy , The Upside of Your Dark Side: The Unexpected Benefits of Living A Balanced Life . He has also contributed to the New York Times Magazine , Newsweek , The Los Angeles Times Magazine , Us Weekly , Esquire , Seventeen Magazine , Time Magazine , Utne Reader .

[R]aising children ... was about identifying and amplifying their strengths...
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[R]aising children ... was about identifying and amplifying their strengths and virtues, and helping them find the niche where they can live these positive traits to the fullest. Martin E.P. Seligman
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When our grandparents failed, they had comfortable spiritual furniture to rest in. They had, for the most part, their relationship to God, their relationship to a nation they loved, their relationship to a community and a large extended family. Faith in God, community, nation, and the large extended family have all eroded in the last forty years, and the spiritual furniture that we used to sit in has become threadbare. Martin E.P. Seligman