Positive Psychology: The Winner's Brain

Friday, January 17, 2014

The Winner's Brain

Eight Strategies Great Minds Use to Achieve Success

by Jeff Brown and Mark Fenske with Liz Neporent

Win Factors:

1. Self-Awareness

2. Motivation: Cultivating the Desire to Win

3. Focus on What's Important

4. Make emotions work in your favor

5. "Remembering" to have a winner's brain

6. Resilience: Bouncing back into Success

7. Adaptability: Reshaping your brain to achieve

8. Brain Care: Maintaining, Protecting and Enhancing Your Brain

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."