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252: Expert Edition: Rory Darkins, Psychology Researcher, Mental Skills Coach, ‘Positive Psychology for the Endurance Athlete’

The Physical Performance Show

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The Origins of Positive Psychology

positive psychology really means the science of optimal functioning and so it's the study of what makes life worth living or what enables people and communities to flourish. The way it came about is traditionally psychology was was almost exclusively focused with with some rare exceptions on deficits and disorders. There was hardly any research attention given to well what's right with people and whatWhat enables what's good in humans and what's what enables us to flourish. Rory: We can be stuck in a rut if you like but it's plastic it can change we can change yeah absolutely.

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