Positive Psychology: Career,Success and Failure in Life by Ajahn Brahm

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Career,Success and Failure in Life by Ajahn Brahm

It is good to keep an open mind in the world of business. Listening to what a Buddhist monk has to say about staying mindful and calm when investing in the stock market is not a radical departure from listening to an economist. Steve Jobs went to India to explore Buddhism. He applied Zen principles of design at Apple.

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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."