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Resilience: A Positive Psychology Lens
Dr. Seligman: Resilience is not about being super normal or better than you were, it's about coming back to normal functioning from a bad event. In the middle of this bell-shaped response are people who collapse and become helpless but in the middle is resilience. He says he thinks positive psychology can move a whole distribution toward post-traumatic growth. The GAT test that every soldier takes on their first day of joining the Army predicts if they'll get PTSD. And we've been able to predict who's going to succeed by being a catastrophizer and an exemplary medal winner.