Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life
Categories: Health, Fitness & Dieting, Self-Help
In Learned Optimism (1990), psychologist Martin Seligman draws on decades of research, beginning with his studies of learned helplessness, to show how pessimism and optimism are learned habits of explanation. Seligman argues that the way people explain setbacks to themselves affects health, achievement and resilience. He includes questionnaires for measuring explanatory style and techniques, adapted from cognitive therapy, for disputing pessimistic thoughts at work, in school and at home.
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- Tony Robbins: “Learned Optimism draws on 20 years of clinical research to show how optimism enhances our quality of life.”