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The Man Who Invented Happiness Science: Marty Seligman
The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos
The Importance of Optimism in Psychology
When you were a kid, "I was a pretty unhappy, miserable kid. That didn't make me want to study misery." But no one was working on happiness and the way learned helplessness gave way to positive psychology. And that led to the next 15 years of my work, which basically found that it was optimistic people who never became helpless.
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