Positive Psychology: An Evening With Doris Kearns Goodwin

Friday, November 2, 2018

An Evening With Doris Kearns Goodwin

An Evening With Doris Kearns Goodwin

Presidential historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns
Goodwin spoke about her latest book, "Leadership in Turbulent Times," at
the LBJ Presidential Library on Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2018. Mark K.
Updegrove, president and CEO of the LBJ Foundation, moderated the
conversation.

Time stamps
Mark K. Updegrove - 0:00-2:45
Larry Temple - 2:45-12:45
Conversation with Doris Kearns Goodwin - 12:45-end

The program was part of the Friends of the LBJ Library membership
programming and generously sponsored by St. David's HealthCare, the Ford
Foundation, the Moody Foundation, and Tito's Handmade Vodka.

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Link: https://youtu.be/8dEMuO5TSTQ

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."