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Index
Cover
About the Book
Contents
Title Page
Dedication
Preface
PART 1: A NEW POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY
Chapter 1: What Is Well-Being?
The Birth of a New Theory
The Original Theory: Authentic Happiness
From Authentic Happiness Theory to Well-Being Theory
Well-Being Theory
The Elements of Well-Being
Kindness Exercise
Flourishing as the Goal of Positive Psychology
Chapter 2: Creating Your Happiness: Positive Psychology Exercises That Work
The Gratitude Visit
Can Well-Being Be Changed?
What-Went-Well Exercise
Positive Psychology Interventions and Cases
Signature Strengths Exercise
Positive Psychotherapy
Chapter 3: The Dirty Little Secret of Drugs and Therapy
Cure Versus Symptom Relief
The 65 Percent Barrier
Active, Constructive Responding
Dealing with Negative Emotions
A New Approach to Cure
Applied Psychology Versus Basic Psychology: Problems Versus Puzzles
Wittgenstein, Popper, and Penn
Chapter 4: Teaching Well-Being: The Magic of MAPP
The First MAPP
Ingredients of Applied Positive Psychology
Intellectually Challenging Applicable Content
Personal and Professional Transformation
Transformations
Called to Positive Psychology
Chapter 5: Positive Education: Teaching Well-Being to Young People
Should Well-Being Be Taught in School?
The Penn Resiliency Program: A Way to Teach Well-Being in School
Three-Good-Things Exercise
Using Signature Strengths in New Ways
The Geelong Grammar School Project
Teaching Positive Education
Embedding Positive Education
Living Positive Education
Positive Computing
A New Measure of Prosperity
PART 2: THE WAYS TO FLOURISH
Chapter 6: GRIT, Character, and Achievement: A New Theory of Intelligence
Success and Intelligence
Positive Character
Drawn by the Future, Not Driven by the Past
What Intelligence Is
Speed
The Virtue of Slowness
Executive Function
Rate of Learning: The First Derivative of Speed
Self-Control and GRIT
GRIT Versus Self-Discipline
High Human Accomplishment
GRIT’s Benefits
Building the Elements of Success
Chapter 7: Army Strong: Comprehensive Soldier Fitness
A Psychologically Fit Army
Global Assessment Tool (GAT)
Online Courses
Emotional Fitness Module
Family Fitness Module
Social Fitness Module
Spiritual Fitness Module
Chapter 8: Turning Trauma into Growth
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Post-Traumatic Growth
Post-Traumatic Growth Course
Post-Traumatic Growth Inventory
Master Resilience Training
Building Mental Toughness
The Hot Seat: Fighting Catastrophic Thoughts in Real Time
Hunt the Good Stuff
Character Strengths
Building Strong Relationships
The Rollout
Chapter 9: Positive Physical Health: The Biology of Optimism
Turning Medicine on Its Head
Origins of Learned Helplessness Theory
Cardiovascular Disease (CVD)
Infectious Illness
Cancer and All-Cause Mortality
Is Well-Being Causal, and How Might It Protect?
Positive Health
Army Database: A National Treasure
Cardiovascular Health Assets
Exercise as a Health Asset
Chapter 10: The Politics and Economics of Well-Being
Beyond Money
The Divergence Between GDP and Well-Being
The Financial Downturn
Ethics Versus Values
Optimism and Economics
Reflexive and Nonreflexive Reality
PERMA 51
Appendix: Signature Strengths Test
Thanks and Acknowledgments
Notes
Index of Searchable Terms
About the Author
Other titles by Martin Seligman
The Works of Martin E. P. Seligman, Ph.D.
Praise
Copyright Page
More at Random House Australia
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