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Kennon Sheldon || How to Be an Optimal Human

The Psychology Podcast

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The Relationship Between Positive Psychology and Humanistic Psychology

The author says positive psychology has tried to distance itself from humanistic psychology, which came before. "I actually kind of like him maybe as much or even more than Maslow," he says about Carl Rogers. In the 1980s instead of giving people a questionnaire and forcing them to respond to what you think is important, let them tell you what they think is important. 'To me, it doesn't really matter what you call an ideographic goal'

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