Flourishing, the New Science of Wellbeing
With all the advances we’ve made in medicine, we are likely to live much longer than our parents and grandparents. However, living long doesn’t necessarily mean living ‘well’. For the additional years to be a gift and not a curse we need to flourish in several key areas of our lives. Martin Seligman addresses this […]
What Drives You?
For far too long we have believed that human motivation was limited to ‘carrot and stick’… not much more than Skinner’s black box of behavior modification through reward and punishment. Fortunately, psychologists began to question this model and suggest that there were more motivators involved. Clearly, reward and punishment works for shaping animal behavior but […]
A New Psychology for A New Era
In August 1999, Martin Seligman in his presidential address for APA initiated a new direction for the field of psychology. He spoke of two areas that psychology needed to play a larger role. The first is ethno-political conflict. “The second area cries out for what I call “positive psychology,” that is, a reoriented science that […]
Who’s High Maintenance In Your Life?
We call someone ‘high maintenance’ when responding to them requires us to use energy above and beyond what we consider normal. In other words, I have to do things that don’t come naturally to me and it will cost me energy to restrain my natural response and additional energy to produce the necessary behavior. For […]