Comments on: Harry Potter and the Power of the Positive http://pos-psych.com/news/dave-shearon/20070717343 Positive Psychology News Daily - Daily boost of research-based happiness. Authored by University of Pennsylvania graduates of the Master of Applied Positive Psychology program (MAPP). Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:29:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: www.theHAPPINESSblog.com http://pos-psych.com/news/dave-shearon/20070717343#comment-5658 www.theHAPPINESSblog.com Fri, 27 Jul 2007 15:13:07 +0000 http://pos-psych.com/news/dave-shearon/20070717343#comment-5658 Dave, I really liked your post. I think that using relevant information, such as the Harry Potter books, is a great way to make a case for PS and positive well-being! Building on common ground.... Dave,
I really liked your post. I think that using relevant information, such as the Harry Potter books, is a great way to make a case for PS and positive well-being! Building on common ground….

]]> By: Senia http://pos-psych.com/news/dave-shearon/20070717343#comment-5612 Senia Thu, 26 Jul 2007 05:34:38 +0000 http://pos-psych.com/news/dave-shearon/20070717343#comment-5612 Dave, Magic - good magic - is interesting for its amazing results and for the unknowability of how it works! I think you may be referring to both aspects when you call some positive psychology concepts magical - both that the results can be amazing and that sometimes it can leave us wondering how that actually happened.... especially because positive psychology is not full-proof... and that is because people are not full-proff... people are not completely predictable. --- "The experience of refusing to see things in the worst possible light, maintaining an openness to the possibility that things could turn out for the best, and therefore acting in ways that make that more likely, and then having it happen, is extraordinarily uplifting." I like this a lot, Dave, thanks! --- Finally, question I've been wanting to ask you - speaking of resilience - - - which of the resilience techniques that we teach is(are) your favorite(s)? Best, S. Dave,

Magic - good magic - is interesting for its amazing results and for the unknowability of how it works! I think you may be referring to both aspects when you call some positive psychology concepts magical - both that the results can be amazing and that sometimes it can leave us wondering how that actually happened….
especially because positive psychology is not full-proof…
and that is because people are not full-proff… people are not completely predictable.

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“The experience of refusing to see things in the worst possible light, maintaining an openness to the possibility that things could turn out for the best, and therefore acting in ways that make that more likely, and then having it happen, is extraordinarily uplifting.”
I like this a lot, Dave, thanks!

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Finally, question I’ve been wanting to ask you - speaking of resilience - - - which of the resilience techniques that we teach is(are) your favorite(s)?

Best,
S.

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