Learned Optimism by Martin Seligman

 Learned Optimism by Martin Seligman


 

This is a book which has been included on the 50 self-help classics list. Since I am trying to go through that list, as much as I can- I looked at this book. It is very interesting and illuminating. If you are an optimist, your chances to be healthier, more successful, live longer have a happy married life are better. It makes sense.
Readers are given all kinds of examples: from the very beginning of the book, we meet a father who thinks his new born baby cannot see. It turns out he is wrong, even when he thinks that the baby is deaf.

There is the example of the woman who one evening fails with her diet and starts accusing herself: I am no good, the diet failed and more.

ABCD: Adversity Behavior Consequences and Disputation…We have to dispute such conclusions, especially since they are wrong, for most of the time.

It is also true that there are situations when pessimism is the mood to take: when a pilot has to deice the wings of the plane, a man had a few drinks and thinks about driving, etc.
 
We should learn to be optimists and understand that the thoughts we have affect our moods and well being –this is something I have read in “The New Mood Therapy”.

Learned Optimism is a good, rather short book which I gave my daughter to read: her “rating „was not so positive, optimistic as mine, but she is only 12- I hope she turns out an optimist, in spite (or subconsciously because) of Learned Optimism.

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