Positive Psychology: The animal who cannot sleep

Monday, April 8, 2019

The animal who cannot sleep

“The importance of insomnia is so colossal that I am tempted to define man as the animal who cannot sleep"
      - E. M. Cioran
Born on this day, in 1911

 Henri Cartier-Bresson

thanks to @DanielBrami1

The animal who cannot sleep

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."