Product Details
ISBN: 9780091825683
Category: General
Format: Paperback
Publication Date: 1992-04-24
Publisher: Random House Australia��
Illustrations: illustrations
Country of origin: Australia
Pages: 319
Dimensions (mm): 209x138x25mm
Weight: 350g
Learned Optimism: Optimism Is Essential For A Good And Successful Life You Too Can Acquire It
Learned Optimism shows us how to stop automatically assuming guilt; how to get out of the habit of seeing the direst possible implications in every setback; how to be optimisitc. With concrete examples Dr Seligman, an expert on motivation, documents the effects of optimism on the quality of life, provides tests to determine the degree of our negative and positive orientation, and offers a program of specific exercises to help break the habit of pessimism and learn the habit of optimism for both ourselves and our children.