Positive Psychology: Attitudes

Saturday, September 13, 2014

Attitudes

'Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.' ~Edith Wharton

'You must do the thing you think you cannot do.' ~Eleanor Roosevelt

'Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.' ~Edith Wharton

Turn toward the problem instead of trying to ignore problems, not wanting to deal with them, procrastinating.

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."