Monday, June 2, 2014

As a professor, I don't like this, but the cerebral virtues — curiosity, love of learning — are less strongly tied to happiness than interpersonal virtues like kindness, gratitude and capacity for love.

We have discovered that there is a set of human strengths that are the most likely buffers against mental illness: courage, optimism, interpersonal skill, work ethic, hope, honesty and perseverance. Much of the task of prevention will be to create a science of human strength whose mission will be to foster these virtues in young people.


The article had said this beforehand:

In 1998 Martin Seligman won election to a one-year term as President of the American Psychological Association and proposed a new focus: on healthy individuals rather than on pathology.
I have learned from past experiences to keep going, forget the chances you have missed and to keep persevering and a chance will come.


The article had said this beforehand:

It could have all been different for Bale and Real, after he spurned three good chances to score before heading in his side's vital second goal at the Estadio da Luz.