Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-being

This Book Will Help You Flourish. With This Unprecedented Promise, Internationally Esteemed Psychologist Martin Seligman Begins Flourish, His First Book In Ten Years---and The First To Present His Dynamic New Concept Of What Well-being Really Is. Traditionally, The Goal Of Psychology Has Been To Relieve Human Suffering, But The Goal Of The Positive Psychology Movement, Which Dr. Seligman Has Led For Fifteen Years, Is Different---it's About Actually Raising The Bar For The Human Condition. Flourish Builds On Dr. Seligman's Game-changing Work On Optimism, Motivation, And Character To Show How To Get The Most Out Of Life, Unveiling An Electrifying New Theory Of What Makes A Good Life---for Individuals, For Communities, And For Nations. With Interactive Exercises To Help Readers Explore Their Own Attitudes And Aims, Flourish Is A Watershed In The Understanding Of Happiness As Well As A Tool For Getting The Most Out Of Life. On The Cutting Edge Of A Science That Has Changed Millions Of Lives, Dr. Seligman Now Creates The Ultimate Extension And Capstone Of His Bestselling Classics, Authentic Happiness And Learned Optimism.--publisher Information. Pt. 1: A New Positive Psychology -- 1: What Is Well-being? -- The Birth Of A New Theory -- The Original Theory: Authentic Happiness -- From Authentic Happiness Theory To Well-being Theory -- Well-being Theory -- The Elements Of Well-being -- Kindness Exercise -- Flourishing As The Goal Of Positive Psychology -- 2: Creating Your Happiness: Positive Psychology Exercises That Work -- The Gratitude Visit -- Can Well-being Be Changed? -- What-went-well Exercise -- Positive Psychology Interventions And Cases -- Signature Strengths -- Positive Psychotherapy -- 3: The Dirty Little Secret Of Drugs And Therapy -- Cure Versus Symptom Relief -- The 65 Percent Barrier -- Active, Constructive Responding -- Dealing With Negative Emotions -- A New Approach To Cure -- Applied Psychology Versus Basic Psychology: Problems Versus Puzzles -- Wittgenstein, Popper, And Penn -- 4: Teaching Well-being: The Magic Of Mapp -- The First Mapp -- Ingredients Of Applied Positive Psychology -- Intellectually Challenging Applicable Content -- Personal And Professional Transformation -- Transformations -- Called To Positive Psychology -- 5: Positive Education: Teaching Well-being To Young People -- Should Well-being Be Taught In School? -- The Penn Resiliency Program: A Way To Teach -- Well-being In School -- Three-good-things Exercise -- Using Signature Strengths In New Ways -- The Geelong Grammar School Project -- Teaching Positive Education -- Embedding Positive Education -- Living Positive Education -- Positive Computing -- A New Measure Of Prosperity. Pt. 2: The Ways To Flourish -- 6: Grit, Character, And Achievement: A New Theory Of Intelligence -- Success And Intelligence -- Positive Character -- Drawn By The Future, Not Driven By The Past -- What Intelligence Is -- Speed -- The Virtue Of Slowness -- Executive Function -- Rate Of Learning: The First Derivative Of Speed -- Self-control And Grit -- Grit Versus Self-discipline -- High Human Accomplishment -- Grit's Benefits -- Building The Elements Of Success -- 7: Army Strong: Comprehensive Soldier Fitness -- A Psychologically Fit Army -- Global Assessment Tool (gat) -- Online Courses -- Emotional Fitness Module -- Family Fitness Module -- Social Fitness Module -- Spiritual Fitness Module -- 8: Turning Trauma Into Growth -- Post-traumatic Stress Disorder -- Post-traumatic Growth -- Post-traumatic Growth Course -- Post-traumatic Growth Inventory -- Master Resilience Training -- Building Mental Toughness -- The Hot Seat: Fighting Catastrophic Thoughts In Real Time -- Hunt The Good Stuff -- Character Strengths -- Building Strong Relationships -- The Rollout -- 9: Positive Physical Health: The Biology Of Optimism -- Turning Medicine On Its Head -- Origins Of Learned Helplessness Theory -- Cardiovascular Disease (cvd) -- Infectious Illness -- Cancer And All-cause Mortality -- Is Well-being Causal, And How Might It Protect? -- Positive Health -- Army Database: A National Treasure -- Cardiovascular Health Assets -- Exercise As A Health Asset -- 10. The Politics And Economics Of Well-being -- Beyond Money -- The Divergence Between Gdp And Well-being -- The Financial Downturn -- Ethics Versus Values -- Optimism And Economics -- Reflexive And Nonreflexive Reality -- Perma 51 -- Appendix: Signature Strengths Test. Martin E.p. Seligman. Originally Published In Hardcover In 2011. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 271-320) And Index.