75 Quotes by Martin E.P. Seligman

Depression, I have argued, stems partly from an overcommitment to the self and an undercommitment to the common good. This.

Just as the good life is something beyond the pleasant life, the meaningful life is beyond the good life.

Third, you learn to make different explanations, called reattributions, and use them to dispute your automatic thoughts.

Changing the destructive things you say to yourself when you experience the setbacks that life deals all of us is the central skill of optimism.

To be a virtuous person is to display, by acts of will, all or at least most of the six ubiquitous virtues: wisdom, courage, humanity, justice, temperance, and transcendence.

Fourth, you learn how to distract yourself from depressing thoughts.

Habits of thinking need not be forever. One of the most significant findings in psychology in the last twenty years is that individuals choose the way they think.

Fifth, you learn to recognize and question the depression-sowing assumptions governing so much of what you do:.

Do you have a problem with alcohol? Is it “abuse,” or, worse, do you “depend” on drinking to get through the day? It will not surprise you to find out that the lines between handling liquor well, abusing alcohol, and being dependent on it are far from clear.