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www.ted.com Martin Seligman talks about psychology — as a field of study and as it works one-on-one with each patient and each practitioner. As it moves beyond a focus on disease, what can modern psychology help us to become?
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y don’t u learn how to suck a cock?
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…why dont you learn how to spell.
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Ofc. You should accept all of the emotions, either positive or negative.
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I can see that it really enriched your thoughtprocess.
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ur a moron y would u pay money for that shit learn to think for ur self u dumb mother fuker
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very true. I just took that in my persuasive communication course at college
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If you think so you should read Steven PInker’s Books……..
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I agree totally..
People WANT to be happy, so they avoid everything that makes them feel guilty. But if we try to fix the biggest problems on this nasty planet, people CAN be happy.
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I have also found that improving your dialogue especially your internal dialogue and you way of handling situations will lead to a lot of improvement in the way you feel about things. It seems like you just get smarter and wiser when you are reacting better to your environment.
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Actually I have often found that believe it or not behavior often changes attitude instead of the other way around. Many people continue to intentionally and inadvertantly explain their own actions by developing the matching attitude.
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having a rich repitware of friends makes us less miserable. not bad
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any psychological state can be changed by the attitude a person has
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I can articulate the state of Psychology in one word:
Rhetoric
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What psychologist think is good for people (relationship), can lead some into poverty.
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Whenever I hear about these sorts of things I’m always left wondering whether we SHOULD be happy, given the fucked up world and society we’ve created and live in. (And thus, whether it’s RIGHT to try to force happiness onto an unhappy situation).
Which is not to say we should be indulging in self-flagellation….instead, I think the true path to happiness is to understand who we really are, and then LIVE that with INTEGRITY–maybe it will change us…and maybe it will change the world.
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You should really check your facts before disparaging someone in public. You’ve got it all wrong. Perhaps you would benefit from a less pessimistic worldview.
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Seligman aided CIA consultant torture psychologists James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen, in the development of these SERE (Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape) techniques…
He started w/ torturing dogs. According to an article in the Sunday Times Magazine, he found that dogs who experience electric shocks that they cannot avoid by their actions simply give up trying. Seligman and others have recently been given huge contracts to teach adolescents and pre-teens how to be happy. Nice guy…
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@ Violin144000,
Religion and what it teaches does not create happiness. I will say on your behalf is people who TRULY believe in the scriptures find happiness. Certainly any principles a person believes in and adhering to those may help create an abundance of happiness.
As far as the study of Positive Psychology. I think Tal Ben-Shahar hit money with his book Happiness.
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Existential philosophy and psychology should work together
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Transformation of character, purity of life, efficiency in service, adherence to correct principles, all depend upon a right knowledge of God. This knowledge is the essential preparation both for this life and for the life to come.
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vapourmile, your comment about him saying that psychology can make people less miserable and that that’s not a very positive outlook is basically what the whole thing is about. He says psychology has always been about making people less miserable and now there’s positive psychology, wich focuses on finding out what makes people happy instead.
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@vapourmile
Having worked both in sales and in research at a university, my feeling is that some people confuse positive emotional projection with feelings of peace and joy. Many of the most cruel and unfeeling people on earth (Joseph Stalin for one) were remarkably charming and humorous. Similarly many of the most fulfilled people I’ve met were fairly quiet among strangers.
His demeanor is typical for an academic. They find their chief pleasures in ideas, not boisterous interaction.
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More to the point, I can’t see how you can have a positive outlook if you don’t empathise.
The point of my argument is… oh, who cares?
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Or, as one of my friends famously said when asked for the meaning of life “It’s just a word, just a sound, a ripple of pressure waves in the atmosphere, any meaning you could ascribe to it is contrived” (c) D.Harper.
I prefer my contrived meaning because I can’t see the use of a positive outlook without empathy… something you could learn from.
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You’re making an unhelpful distinction between “a positive outlook” and “cheerfulness and empathy” for the sake of yours.