“Hey Em, don’t you think this traffic jam is cute?” Huh?

“What do you think God sees when He looks down? He must be so amused that people queue in little boxes on wheels like ants in a line every morning …” Yep that caught her imagination, and soon she was happily telling her versions of how human behavior might appear to other creatures. We arrived at school in time and she was chirpy.

Karen Reivich and Andrew Shatte in The Resilience Factor show readers how to deal with thinking traps when faced with adversity, using the ABCDE technique: […]

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From Wired: Down with Happiness by David Ewing Duncan

Article descirbes all the different ways that people seek the pursuit of happiness, including drugs, neural implants, alcohol, and good old-fashioned flow.
“In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson famously proclaimed a universal right to the pursuit of happiness. The key word there […]

Yikes! I’m turning 50 in ten days.  It’s hard to believe.  Where did the time go?  What have I accomplished?  What have I contributed?  What do I want to accomplish and contribute in the next fifty years?
Sound familiar?  If you are at or beyond 50, you have undoubtedly asked yourself these questions.  If you are […]

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It was quite possibly the most inspiring and shocking behavior I’ve ever witnessed; I was bewildered and heartened by what this mother had done. It wasn’t a terribly overt act, certainly not something that will propel this twenty-something mother onto the evening news. She simply checked a box on a psychological survey that I administered, a box adjacent to the following text: “I feel cheerful most or all of the time.” […]

I write these thoughts in the news of the shooting rampage at Virginia.

The science of positive psychology is-value free and as Shane Lopez writes, we still don’t know if it will ‘work’: does it furnish our mentalities enough to save the world? I have been listening to the Reith lectures by Jeffrey Sachs, an economist (UN and Columbia) who sets out clear pathways to eradicate extreme poverty within a decade – for example providing mosquito nets for all children in Africa over the next ten years would cost less than the Pentagon spends each day – and I have been struck by the scepticism that infuses all the questions, the doubts, the bias to the negative, the lack of hope, the sabotage of agency. Log on to BBC radio to check out this extraordinary battle between possibilities and doubt. (more …)

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By Guest Author TIMOTHY SO

After attending the 1st Applied Positive Psychology Conference last week hosted by the Center for Applied Positive Psychology in the UK (CAPP), I realized that I came away with three strong lessons. The 3-day conference turned out to be a great success, and I learned much more than I expected.

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Last Tuesday, the 10th, I participated in a continuing legal education (CLE) program that was the exception to the rule that “war stories” are not good CLE. “War stories” are anecdotes about a trial or other experience in representing a client. Often, these stories, while entertaining, primarily serve to make the storyteller look good. They lack educational value.

When I reflect on all that I learned last year in the University of Pennsylvania’s Master of Applied Positive Psychology (MAPP), it sometimes makes my head spin.  I’m reminded of the notion of clarity that Buckingham describes in his book The One Thing You Need to Know (2005).   I’m taking Buckingham’s advice and am placing […]