803: Martin Seligman | Flourishing in an Uncertain Future
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Jordan Harbinger
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🗓️ 2 March 2023
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Martin Seligman is the Fox Leadership Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania and the director of the Positive Psychology Network. He is the author of 20+ books including Learned Optimism and The Optimistic Child; his latest (co-authored with Gabriella Rosen Kellerman) is Tomorrowmind: Thriving at Work with Resilience, Creativity, and Connection ? Now and in an Uncertain Future.
What We Discuss with Martin Seligman:- Studies have shown that optimistic people with highly positive emotions live between six and eight years longer than their more pessimistic peers.
- Personality traits, past experiences, and current circumstances can all play a role in shaping an individual's outlook on life — and their tendency to veer toward optimism or pessimism.
- How Martin's five-year-old daughter inspired him to stop being a grouch and shift his professional priorities in a more positive direction — all because of her own commitment to stop whining.
- How, by focusing on strengths, resilience, and positive psychological growth, military personnel can learn to better cope with the stresses of their duties and build a more positive and effective team culture.
- How we can apply positive psychology strategies to overcome the crisis of purpose and find greater fulfillment in our lives by cultivating gratitude, setting meaningful goals, practicing mindfulness, and finding ways to serve others — even if we're predisposed (genetically or otherwise) toward pessimism.
- And much more…
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| 0:07.6 | Optimistic people, people with high positive emotion, |
| 0:12.5 | lived between six and eight years longer than pessimists. |
| 0:16.7 | So being in the bottom quartile of pessimism is roughly equivalent to smoking three packs of cigarettes a day. |
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