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| 9e0f577 | depression and helplessness were the same by showing they had the same brain-chemical mechanisms. | Martin E.P. Seligman | ||
| f2fd349 | Review YOU SHOULD NOW be well on your way to using disputation, the prime technique for learned optimism, in your daily life. You first saw the ABC link--that specific beliefs lead to dejection and passivity. Emotions and actions do not usually follow adversity directly. Rather they issue directly from your beliefs about adversity. This means that if you change your mental response to adversity, you can cope with setbacks much better. The m.. | Martin E.P. Seligman | ||
| e531fa7 | Nature has buffered out children not only physically--prepubescent children have the lowest death rate from all causes-- but psychologically as well, by endowing them with hope, abundant and irrational. | hope irrational | Martin E.P. Seligman | |
| c2e959c | Nature has buffered our children not only physically-- prepubescent children have the lowest death rate from all causes-- but psychologically as well, by endowing them with hope, abundant and irrational. | hope irrational | Martin E.P. Seligman | |
| 2ca19e0 | Along with this escalation in material expectations has come an escalation in what counts as acceptable in work and in love. our job used to be counted satisfactory if it brought home the bacon. Not so today. It must also be meaningful. There must be room to move up. It must provide for a comfortable retirement. Coworkers must be congenial and the endeavor ecologically sound. Marriage also now requires more than it used to. It's no longer j.. | marriage work-expectation | Martin E.P. Seligman | |
| 2582882 | With regard to medications, the most widely used drug is Antabuse (disulflram). Antabuse and alcohol don't mix: When an alcoholic takes a dose of Antabuse and then drinks alcohol, he becomes horribly nauseated and short of breath. | Martin E.P. Seligman | ||
| 9bdf3ae | For example, if I promise you one thousand dollars to turn to this page, you will probably choose to do so, and you will succeed. If, however, I promise you one thousand dollars to contract the pupil of your eye, using only willpower, you may choose to do it, but that won't matter. You are helpless to contract your pupil. Page turning is under your voluntary control; the muscles that change your pupillary size are not. | Martin E.P. Seligman | ||
| d95be41 | When we need spiritual furniture, we look around and see that all the comfortable leather sofas and stuffed chairs have been removed and all that's left to sit on is a small, frail folding chair: the self. And the maximal self, stripped of the buffering of any commitment to what is larger in life, is a setup for depression. | Martin E.P. Seligman | ||
| 11b79b4 | Life begins in utter helplessness. The newborn infant cannot help himself, for hefn1 is almost entirely a creature of reflex. When he cries, his mother comes, although this does not mean that he controls his mother's coming. His crying is a mere reflex reaction to pain and discomfort. He has no choice about whether he cries. | Martin E.P. Seligman | ||
| b94d049 | During Pavlovian conditioning they felt the shocks go on and off regardless of whether they struggled or jumped or barked or did nothing at all. They had concluded, or "learned," that nothing they did mattered. So why try?" | Martin E.P. Seligman | ||
| 709d2e0 | They argued that these perpetrators have high self-esteem, and that their unwarranted self-esteem causes violence. Baumeister's work suggests that if you teach unwarrantedly high self-esteem to children, problems will ensue. A sub-group of these children will also have a mean streak in them. When these children confront the real world, and it tells them they are not as great as they have been taught, they will lash out with violence. So it .. | Martin E.P. Seligman | ||
| ab3457c | But clinical psychologists also began to find something disconcerting emerging from therapy: even on that rare occasion when therapy goes superbly and unusually well, and you help the client rid herself of depression, anxiety, and anger, happiness is not guaranteed. Emptiness is not an uncommon result. | Martin E.P. Seligman | ||
| 74d17ec | Tales de Mileto pensaba que todo era agua.8 Aristoteles creia que todos los actos del ser humano tenian como fin la consecucion de la felicidad.9 Nietzsche pensaba que toda accion humana tenia como proposito alcanzar el poder.10 Freud pensaba que el fin de todos los actos del ser humano era evitar la angustia.11 Todos estos gigantes del pensamiento cayeron en el enorme error del monismo, | Martin E.P. Seligman | ||
| ad2250b | Culture was felt to be a fragile achievement, which could always fall prey to the forces of disorder and disintegration. | Karen Armstrong | ||
| 5012dd7 | Introduccion a la psicologia positiva" para la clase inaugural del programa de maestria en psicologia positiva aplicada en 2005. Senia, de treinta y dos anos, graduada con honores en matematicas por la Universidad de Harvard, habla con soltura ruso y japones y dirige su propio fondo de cobertura, es el ejemplo emblematico de la psicologia positiva. Su sonrisa transmite calidez incluso a las aulas cavernosas de Huntsman Hall, apodado la "Est.. | Martin E.P. Seligman | ||
| c8a67a8 | Expectation always introduces an element of bias, because it anticipates outcomes without waiting to see what actually happens. However, if expectations are consistently modified in the face of experience in a (*)-like or Bayesian manner, then over time, the influence of initial expectations will tend to diminish as new experiences "tune" expectations to actual frequencies through the reduction of prediction error. As experience grows in ma.. | Martin E.P. Seligman | ||
| 449b115 | At my parents' house, I recently found a 1950 black-and-white snapshot of a chubby bespectacled warrior holding a three-and-a-half-foot freshly killed rattlesnake. The boy's smile is ecstatic. | Martin E.P. Seligman | ||
| 0dfe87c | The theory clearly predicts that in the classroom and, as we shall see in the next chapter, the playing field, success will not necessarily go to the most talented. The prize will go to the adequately talented who are also optimists. | Martin E.P. Seligman | ||
| d13bc62 | With patients, he pushed and pushed until he had persuaded them to give up the irrational beliefs that sustained their depression. "What do you mean you can't live without love?" he would cry. "Utter nonsense. Love comes rarely in life, and if you waste your life mooning over its all too ordinary absence, you are bringing on your own depression. You are living under a tyranny of should's. Stop 'should-ing' on yourself!" | Martin E.P. Seligman | ||
| 8577369 | Those who idealize the past tend not to understand it: restoration kills it with kindness. | Robin Lane Fox | ||
| eb556b0 | A. N. Wilson in Jesus and Robin Lane Fox in The Unauthorized Version (among | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 4efeef3 | Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor. | Arnold J. Toynbee | ||
| cf584bb | The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play. | Arnold J. Toynbee | ||
| bf95693 | Lunar Geology Rocks. | Homer Hickam | ||
| 96ae7d9 | You clearly are a remarkable man," she said, "to travel with such creatures. The rooster is much more than he seems, as is the alligator. But, of course, you know that." Homer" | Homer Hickam | ||
| d3fa357 | Death ain't nothin'," the tied-up man retorted. "It's how you die. Watch me, boys, and learn somethin'!" | Homer Hickam | ||
| e1490ab | A gillie, by golly! But it's illegal!" "It knows," Crater" | Homer Hickam | ||
| 369e137 | You think you don't need anything," she said. "You think you know yourself completely. Yet, the paradox is that you are on this journey to discover who you really are." "But" | Homer Hickam | ||
| 2323db9 | Dilly Trammel shot me as I was climbing out." Jim winced, as if the memory made him get shot all over again. "Trudy and me heard him at the front door--an hour before he should've been home, by the way--but then he sneaked around and winged me with his pistola while I was doing my best to save the honor of his wife by not being caught. What kind of man would be so low as to shoot a man looking after the honor of his wife?" | Homer Hickam | ||
| 22f56ec | agitators were dispatched to Coalwood in droves and, very soon, wildcat strikes were hitting the mine every | Homer Hickam | ||
| 5fe2da2 | I had my fun with you yesterday, Homer, with Bruiser and all, but I hope you know I care about you. You're a good man, maybe too good by a sight, so keep in mind there's a Depression out where you're going. We're mostly walled off from it here in the mountains. People you'll run across are going to be desperate. Stay on guard." "I" | Homer Hickam | ||
| b579e6e | Cutter Dione, | Homer Hickam Jr. | ||
| 4daad2d | Elsie started to tell a lie she knew her husband wanted to hear. I don't love Buddy. I love you. To her astonishment, what came out was "I'm sorry." When she realized what she had said, she tried to tell her lie again but it still came out the same. "I'm sorry." "So" | Homer Hickam | ||
| 9e9a104 | Death happened often enough that a certain melancholy existed between the young men and women of the little West Virginia town when they made their daily farewells | mining west-virginia | Homer Hickam | |
| 00ef39d | blue suede shoes | Homer Hickam | ||
| 0d22b8c | I'm a writer. These people are American nomads, forever on the move, trying to feed themselves and their families. I'm thinking about writing a book about them. My name is John Steinbeck. Perhaps you've heard of me." After" | Homer Hickam | ||
| 2f581c5 | At this declaration, Homer recalled some instruction from Captain Laird. "When a woman tells a man there's something they need to talk about," the great man had advised, "my advice is to avail yourself of the nearest door." | Homer Hickam | ||
| afd78c2 | You let Kerns hit the ball. Question is why?" "I wanted to let him keep his dignity." Thompson" | Homer Hickam | ||
| e0218a5 | But that's what kismet is. It makes us careen off in odd directions from which we learn not only what life is about but what it is for. This journey may be nothing less than your chance to discover these things. | Homer Hickam | ||
| 1481edb | Carter opened the leather cover of the document and spread out its papers. He pretended to study them for a moment although he could quote them by rote. A good lawyer is also a good actor and a dramatic pause seemed in order. | Homer Hickam | ||
| ab24715 | Nothing on this planet could slink like a fox, Mom said, except maybe a politician in a beer joint. | Homer Hickam | ||
| fc47d00 | The morning sun was a grinning, red-toothed warrior, come to slay the night. Bloody and quick, it tore through the night-riding clouds sitting on the purplish, rolling sea and flung a silver-white spear across Melagi, abruptly turning the great volcano that dominated the island from gray shadow to the color of bright jade. The night-wet air convulsed in the sudden heat. Steam boiled from the winding jungle hollows like hot smoke, and the fe.. | Homer Hickam | ||
| d3911e4 | the dogma that History is just "one damned thing after another...." | Arnold J. Toynbee | ||
| 1b9f20b | February 20: Bob Alden writes from Korea on New York Times stationery to Stan (not otherwise identified): "The girl was just wonderful out here. She put every ounce of herself into everything that she did and won the hearts of a hundred thousand smitten G.I.'s. I doubt if any of them from General on down to Private will ever be the same again. Maybe we could send Marilyn up into North Korea to win over the Communists." | Carl Rollyson |