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Learned Optimism
- How to Change Your Mind and Your Life
- Narrated by: Martin E. P. Seligman Ph.D.
- Length: 1 hr and 23 mins
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Summary
You can acquire optimism and significantly improve your life! Are you an optimist or a pessimist? How often do you take on exciting new projects or celebrate your successes? Now psychologist Martin E.P. Seligman, one of the world's experts on motivation, shows you how to chart a new approach to living with "flexible optimism." Dr. Seligman's principles of reasoned, flexible optimism will help you rise above pessimism and the depression that accompanies negative thoughts.
Learned Optimism shows you how to:
- Attain maximum personal achievement
- Boost your mood - and your immune system - with healthful thoughts
- Help your children by practicing the patterns of thought that encourage optimism at an early age
- Change your interior dialogue and experience the astonishing positive results
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- Lorie Hollies
- 09-04-22
You need the physical book too to do the "tests".
You need the physical book too to do the "tests". So a good chunk of the book is useless.
I wouldn't choose to buy this audio book.
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- Nina Weissman
- 22-08-16
Excellent. Exceeded expectations.
What did you like most about Learned Optimism?
Strong advice about health happiness and success.
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This book offers strong advice about health, happiness and success.
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- Adam Paciorek
- 14-04-19
Simply great!
To the point. short and actionable. the test you do at the beginning is really helpful and the rest of the book shows how to deal with the results. I am very glad I gave this one a listen.
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- jim bechtel
- 22-02-20
Pessimists can be optimistic
A very insightful book on how to use optimism. A very helpful read for those that want to be healthier and even live longer according to the author.
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- Anonymous User
- 26-04-23
Not the actual book!
It's a simplified self-help version of the original book and that really was not what I was looking for.
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- Phillistein
- 19-05-10
I would give it a six if it wasn't abbreviated
This is an excellent snapshot of how your explanatory style leads to positive or negative thinking. Comes complete with self-test booklet and with suggestions for overcoming negative thinking patterns by disputation and diversion tactics. Deserves to be in the top one. I was put off by shortness of download but it packs a lot in. I can't see why the full version is not available. Seligman IS the father of positive psychology, learned helplessness etc
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- Dr RE Hodgson
- 10-06-19
Very disappointing
This title is complely unsuitable for an audio book. Most people are doing something else e.g. driving while listening so filling in questionaires isn't feasible. I would have prefered Prof. Seligman to give a summary rather than wading through piles of primary data
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- Tony Wright
- 08-07-14
Concise, practical summary.
Would you consider the audio edition of Learned Optimism to be better than the print version?
I struggled with the print version of this book first time around, and was encouraged to go back to it because of the accessibility of the audio version. It is one of only a few books I have listened back to frequently.
What other book might you compare Learned Optimism to, and why?
Seven Habits of Highly Effective People for its pragmatic examples of how to adopt a positive, pro-active attitude.
What about Martin E. P. Seligman’s performance did you like?
Littered with examples throughout.
Did you have an emotional reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
One of warm encouragement.
Any additional comments?
A great, two hour refresher, even for those familiar with Seligman's work in positive psychology, of the mental toolkit available to help us live our best lives.
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- Tony
- 23-12-12
a really useful book
i think this book will be a good read for anyone who wants to develop the way they think and how they deal with negative thoughts. nice and short but very practical!
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- Anonymous User
- 19-03-22
Missing test
The test you are supposed to take is missing in the library, making the whole point of the book useless.
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