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Finding the Right Speed in an Ever-Faster World

...go fast and when to go slow. By speeding up in the right places, we can create the space to slow down and enjoy life more. As psychologist and Positive Psychology pioneer, Martin Seligman, writes in his book, Flourish: A Visioning New Understanding of Happiness and Well-Being, “Going slow allows...

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Thoughts That Make You Go Hmmm on…Mindfulness

...in a Mindful Universe: A Neurosurgeon’s Journey into the Heart of Consciousness   “Going slow allows executive function to take over. Executive function consists of focusing and ignoring distractions, remembering, and using new information, planning action, and revising the plan, and inhibiting fast, impulsive thoughts and actions.” Martin Seligman, Flourish:...

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Book Review: “Man’s Search for Meaning” by Viktor Frankl

...a deed; (2) by experiencing something or encountering someone; and (3) by the attitude we take toward unavoidable suffering.” This search for meaning is very consistent with the most recent research on positive psychology as outlined by the movement’s founder, Martin Seligman, in his book Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding...

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How to Counter COVID Fatigue and Build a Thriving Workplace

...in Applied Positive Psychology and a provisional PhD for her research on Appreciative Inquiry Summits. The Canadian Positive Psychology Association hosted the webinar. I’ve been a CPPA member for many years as a keen follower of the fast-growing field of positive psychology and Martin Seligman’s (professor at University of Pennsylvania...

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Staying Above the Line When a Boss Plays Favorites

...for doing that from “Choosing to be a Navigator, Survivor, or Victim” in the April 2008 issue). Martin Seligman’s research and practical tips around “authentic happiness” could be quite useful to you as well – especially his suggestions for increasing your focus on gratitude and your strengths. Go to www.authentichappiness.com...

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Choosing Our Reality

...optimist believes no one ever ruined their eyesight by looking at the bright side of life. Research on Emotional Intelligence, Attribution Theory (see Martin Seligman’s outstanding book Learned Optimism), and related fields show that optimists not only go farther in life, they also have a much better time on the...

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Take a Year-End Santa Claus Pause

...for Lasting Fulfillment, psychology professor Martin Seligman encourages reflection and renewal, “weigh up your life once a year. If you find you are getting short weight, change your life. You will usually find that the solution lies in your own hands.” We can get old or grow old. As organizational...

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Navigating Change and Adversity

...competitors, and the like. Decades of research by University of Pennsylvania Psychology professor, Martin Seligman, shows that explaining events in our lives in this state of “learned helplessness” leads to lower performance, poorer health, and higher rates of depression. What Pulls People Down The feeling of helplessness shared by many...

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I am Not a Born Leader

...why I deliberately put it at the top of the Wallow Words Tempting Ten list. Positive psychology pioneer, Martin Seligman’s decades of research on the roots of happiness and well-being reports, “all of these studies — and they now number in the hundreds — converge on a single point: roughly...

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Interview Questions That Made Me Go Hmmmm….

...work of Martin Seligman in founding positive psychology (Learned Optimism, Authentic Happiness, and Flourish) and Zenger Folkman’s ground breaking research advancing strengths-based philosophies with practical methodologies (The Extraordinary Leader and How to Be Exceptional) are highly complementary combinations that have sharpened my own personal growth and dramatically shifted our approaches...

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Renewal Claus: A Year-End Pause for Your Cause

...New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment, psychology professor Martin Seligman encourages reflection and renewal, “weigh up your life once a year. If you find you are getting short weight, change your life. You will usually find that the solution lies in your own hands.” We can...

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Review of “The Happiness Advantage” by Shawn Achor

...well-being and on to flourishing. This is a much deeper, lasting, and ultimately more fulfilling place. Happiness is a byproduct of well-being and flourishing but not the end goal. The founder of Positive Psychology (and the field’s rock star), Martin Seligman’s book, Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and...

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Thoughts That Make You Go Hmmm on… “What You Can Change… And What You Can’t”

“The knowledge of the difference between what we can change and what we must accept in ourselves is the beginning of real change. With this knowledge, we can use our precious time to make the many rewarding changes that are possible. We can live with less self-reproach and less remorse....

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