Positive Psychology: FAIL FOREWARD

Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Op-Ed Contributor

The Risk Pool

By JENNIFER FINNEY BOYLAN

At the start of another school year, parents, remember: if we never give our children permission to get things wrong, they're unlikely to ever learn how to get things right.

SOURCE: http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2013/08/27/opinion/opiniontodayemail/index.html

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."