Positive Psychology: Kindness

Friday, July 17, 2015

Kindness

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

- Mark Twain

"Don’t do something because it's easy; Do somehting because you want to do it. Give yourself that challenge you will not be sorry."

--Bowman
@StocktonSays Bowman, on following her childhood dream of flying a spacecraft.

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."