If you were an optimistic teen, then you'll be an ... -Martin Seligman

If you were an optimistic teen, then you'll be an optimist at 80. People's reactions to bad events are highly stable over a half century or more.

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If you were an optimistic teen, then you'll be an optimist at 80. People's reactions to bad events are highly stable over a half century or more....

One of the things psychologists used to say was that if you are depressed, anxious or angry, you couldn't be happy. Those were at opposite ends of a c...

Positive thinking is the notion that if you think good thoughts, things will work out well. Optimism is the feeling of thinking things will be well an...

Well-being cannot exist just in your own head. Well-being is a combination of feeling good as well as actually having meaning, good relationships and ...

Psychology is much bigger than just medicine, or fixing unhealthy things. It's about education, work, marriage - it's even about sports. What I want t...

In human history, we are going from knowledge to omniscience, from potence to omnipotence, from ethics and religion to righteousness. So, in my view, ...

The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one mo...

On the relationship side, if you teach people to respond actively and constructively when someone they care about has a victory, it increases love and...

I'm trying to broaden the scope of positive psychology well beyond the smiley face. Happiness is just one-fifth of what human beings choose to do....

The word 'happiness' always bothered me, partly because it was scientifically unwieldy and meant a lot of different things to different people, and al...

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Believe it or not, I was a very adventurous teen, and I was all about trying new things (some things never change, ha)....

Without exaggeration, hyperbole or conflict of interest, 'On My Block' is the best teen show in the history of teen shows....

I may weep inconsolably when I hold a copy of 'All I Know Now' for the first time. I just hope that everyone who reads it enjoys it and finds some com...

I think I learned 'Smoke On The Water,' then 'Eye of the Tiger,' then 'Smells Like Teen Spirit.'...

I think as a teen who was thrust into the public eye pretty quickly, I got overwhelmed easily and felt constant pressure to be a certain type of perso...

I experimented as a teen, and had some hellish hairstyles - way too many perms and cheap hairspray!...

I always wanted to be independent. I worked at a few odd jobs as a teen and, when I was in my early 20s, I soon realised that I disliked unfair bosses...

I definitely was one angsty teen and I definitely went through the emo phase....