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Learned Optimism

How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

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Learned Optimism

By: Martin E. P. Seligman Ph.D.
Narrated by: Martin E. P. Seligman Ph.D.
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You can acquire optimism and significantly improve your life! Are you an optimist or a pessimist? How often do you take on exciting new projects or celebrate your successes? Now psychologist Martin E.P. Seligman, one of the world's experts on motivation, shows you how to chart a new approach to living with "flexible optimism." Dr. Seligman's principles of reasoned, flexible optimism will help you rise above pessimism and the depression that accompanies negative thoughts.

Learned Optimism shows you how to:

  • Attain maximum personal achievement
  • Boost your mood - and your immune system - with healthful thoughts
  • Help your children by practicing the patterns of thought that encourage optimism at an early age
  • Change your interior dialogue and experience the astonishing positive results

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio.

©1991 Martin E.P. Seligman, Ph.D., All Rights Reserved (P)1991 Simon & Schuster Audio, All Rights Reserved Personal Development Personal Success Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Health Mental Health Feel-Good

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What did you like most about Learned Optimism?

Strong advice about health happiness and success.

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This book offers strong advice about health, happiness and success.

Excellent. Exceeded expectations.

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You need the physical book too to do the "tests". So a good chunk of the book is useless.

I wouldn't choose to buy this audio book.

You need the physical book too to do the "tests".

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To the point. short and actionable. the test you do at the beginning is really helpful and the rest of the book shows how to deal with the results. I am very glad I gave this one a listen.

Simply great!

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A very insightful book on how to use optimism. A very helpful read for those that want to be healthier and even live longer according to the author.

Pessimists can be optimistic

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This is an excellent snapshot of how your explanatory style leads to positive or negative thinking. Comes complete with self-test booklet and with suggestions for overcoming negative thinking patterns by disputation and diversion tactics. Deserves to be in the top one. I was put off by shortness of download but it packs a lot in. I can't see why the full version is not available. Seligman IS the father of positive psychology, learned helplessness etc

I would give it a six if it wasn't abbreviated

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This title is complely unsuitable for an audio book. Most people are doing something else e.g. driving while listening so filling in questionaires isn't feasible. I would have prefered Prof. Seligman to give a summary rather than wading through piles of primary data

Very disappointing

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I’m sure I’ll use the skills and tips shared in this book to improve my life, it all feels very simple, manageable and logical.

Unfortunately the pdf doesn’t seem to come with this download so I had to go hunting for info online to be able to complete the first exercise. If that was fixed this would be a 5 star review.

Great tool for learning how to improve life with flexible optimism

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Super AUDIBLE version of the book. Great introduction into the power of positive Psychology. The pdf assessment is a great way of understanding the basic principles.

Great into into improving your thinking processes

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Well worth listening to for techniques for yourself or clients. You may need the book in print for the tests therein.

well worth your time

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some good ideas and suggestions but very short and generally repetition of old knowledge. The main problem is that half of the "book" refers to some cards which are not available for the audible version.

Less than expected

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