The Hope Circuit
by Martin E. P. Seligman
Seligman's memoir: learned helplessness, the turn to optimism and positive psychology, the APA presidency, the discovery that helplessness is the default and hope is learned. A life in psychology.
Read it if…
you want the story behind positive psychology.
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Skip it if…
you want the method; see Learned Optimism.
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Three things you will actually use
- Helplessness is the default; control is learned.
- A field can be founded by a few stubborn people.
- Keep revising your own theory.
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Read the chapters on the reversal of learned helplessness.
Our verdict
The man behind positive psychology.
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