Learned Optimism

An optimistic case for optimism: you can learn it, you can measure it, you can teach it and you will be healthier and happier for it. – Aaron T. Beck MD, founder of Cognitive TherapyVaulted me out of my funk … fellow moderate pessimists, go buy this book. – Marian Sandmaier, New York Times Book ReviewOne of the most important books of the century. – Dr Robert H Schuller, author of Tough Times Never Last, But Tough People DoA powerful blueprint for reforming your deepest pessimistic tendencies. – Maria Popova, Brain Pickings

Martin E. P. Seligman, PhD, is the Fox Leadership Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, the director of the Positive Psychology Network, and the former president of the American Psychological Association. Among his twenty books are Authentic Happiness and The Optimistic Child. His memoir The Hope Circuit will be published by Nicholas Brealey in 2018.