Martin E. Seligman is
one of the fathers of the positive
psychology
movement. His twenty-year-old book, Learned Optimism: How to Change
your Mind and your
Life, builds
on his research on learned
helplessness and depression. Learned
helplessness, as
you pr...
In the Star Trek universe, Vulcans routinely practice The Disciplines, mental exercises that allow them to live their lives according to cthia, the philosophy of seeing the world dispassionately as it really is. Not surprisingly, there’s a real-lif...
