Positive Psychology: Repetition, Repetition, Repetition.

Monday, January 25, 2010

Repetition, Repetition, Repetition.

My challenge is to learn new things about how the world goes around. Realistically we can take in only small amounts of information before our uptake suffers. This is a situation that is frustrating and overwhelming in the Information Age we are currently experiencing. Information overload is one barrier to learning useful things.

My introduction to the perishable quality of new skills learned was driven home by a small book called, "Know Can Do" by Ken Blanchard.

Positive Psychology given credence by Academia:

Positive psychology is the scientific study of the strengths and virtues that enable individuals and communities to thrive.

Commentators on the subject Martin Seligman and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, note that:

"The field of positive psychology at the subjective level is about valued subjective experiences: well-being, contentment, and satisfaction (in the past); hope and optimism (for the future); and flow and happiness (in the present).

At the individual level, it is about positive individual traits: the capacity for love and vocation, courage, interpersonal skill, aesthetic sensibility, perseverance, forgiveness, originality, future mindedness, spirituality, high talent, and wisdom.

At the group level, it is about the civic virtues and the institutions that move individuals toward better citizenship: responsibility, nurturance, altruism, civility, moderation,tolerance, and work ethic."