La Force de L’Optimisme by Martin Seligman, who is considered one of the most eminent psychologists of the twentieth century. Founder of positive psychology, he was the president of the American Psychological Association. However, his only book with a ranking on The Greatest Books of All Time site sits at 17297; you have thousands of reviews on books from The GOAT and other sites on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/08/do-you-have-any-suggestions-how-to-make.html and YouTube channel

 

La Force de L’Optimisme by Martin Seligman, who is considered one of the most eminent psychologists of the twentieth century. Founder of positive psychology, he was the president of the American Psychological Association. However, his only book with a ranking on The Greatest Books of All Time site sits at 17297; you have thousands of reviews on books from The GOAT and other sites on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/08/do-you-have-any-suggestions-how-to-make.html and YouTube channel

 

10 out of 10

 

Martin Seligman https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/flourish-by-martin-seligman.html was the co-founder of Positive Psychology, and with that, he will be more consequential than the Orange American Psycho – as I write this, I have Jimmy Kimmel in the background, ridiculing the latest absurdities from the GOAT

 

He brags that he is the best of all time, while saying that Iran could take two blue cities, LA and San Diego, in jest, his maniacal defenders say, except Kimmel was suspended for joking, and it was not about thirty million being killed, it is incredible, I could not believe that the US of Erica will get this low and despicable

The MAGA crowd, I was talking about Optimisme and here I go, sucked into the abyss, but hey, optimism is necessary, Martin Seligman had been quite grumpy, there is this story of how he ‘invented’ {Positive Psychology’, told by himself, his daughter wanted something https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/learned-optimism-by-martin-seligman.html but Seligman was upset

 

He then realized that he was negative, then he thought about the fact that psychology had been concentrating on negativity, taking care of the people with issues, why not take people from zero to positive, instead of only caring for those who are in negative territory, trying to get them to zero, so we have this fabulous new science

Martin Seligman had taken part in studies made with dogs, who were in cages, where electricity was used, some could not escape, and this became Learned Helplessness, even when they had a way out, used with the lack of options, they just suffered, the reverse of this is that we are able to get to Learned Optimism

 

Even better https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/10/learn-how-to-get-to-optimal-state-from.html we get to Flow, another classic of Positive Psychology, indeed, Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi is considered the other co-founder of this science, and the conditions are: you are in control, nothing else matters, it is an autotelic experience…

There are clear and meaningful goals, you are between burnout and boredom, in a challenging zone, time is relative – check the Einstein quote on this, with the stove and the beautiful girl – and feedback is constant and instant, you can use a variety of sources now to get the scientific formulas of happiness, from Tal Ben Shahar

 

His lectures are formulas the most popular in the history of Harvard, and then there is Sonja Lyubomirsky https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-myths-of-happiness-by-sonja.html but also Biswas Diener and his wonderful The Upside of Your Dark Side, demonstrating that there is something to be said about negativity

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