Learned Optimism 18 Audio Quotes Extracts from Book Martin Seligman Pt 1
“ People who give up easily believe the causes of the bad events that happen to them are permanent: The bad events will persist, will always be there to affect their lives. People who resist helplessness believe the causes of bad events are temporary. ” Audio Quotes form Learned Optimism Book by Martin Seligman
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18 Excerpts and Passages as Audio Quotes from Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life Book Martin Seligman. “ The belief in self-improvement is a prophecy just as self-fulfilling as the old belief that character could not be changed. ”
“ We found that merely repeating positive statements to yourself does not raise mood or achievement very much, if it all. It is how you cope with negative statements that has an effect. ”
Quote from Learned Optimism Book by Martin Seligman
“ The optimists, who are confronted with the same hard knocks of this world, think about misfortune in the opposite way. They tend to believe defeat is just a temporary setback, that its causes are confined to this one case. The optimists believe defeat is not their fault: Circumstances, bad luck, or other people brought it about. Such people are unfazed by defeat. Confronted by a bad situation, they perceive it as a challenge and try harder. ”
Quote from Learned Optimism Book by Martin Seligman
“ The belief in self-improvement is a prophecy just as self-fulfilling as the old belief that character could not be changed. ”
Quote from Learned Optimism Book by Martin Seligman
“ If I promise you one thousand dollars to turn to this page, you will probably choose to do so, and you will succeed. If, however, I promise you one thousand dollars to contract the pupil of your eye, using only willpower, you may choose to do it, but that won/’t matter. You are helpless to contract your pupil. Page turning is under your voluntary control; the muscles that change your pupillary size are not. ”
Quote from Learned Optimism Book by Martin Seligman
“ The genius of evolution lies in the dynamic tension between optimism and pessimism continually correcting each other.”
Quote from Learned Optimism Book by Martin Seligman
“ The explanatory-style theory of success says that in order to choose people for success in a challenging job, you need to select for three characteristics: 1. Aptitude 2. Motivation 3. Optimism. All three determine success. ”
Quote from Learned Optimism Book by Martin Seligman
“ If you think about bad things in always/’s and never/’s and abiding traits, you have a permanent, pessimistic style. If you think in sometimes’s and lately’s, if you use qualifiers and blame bad events on transient conditions, you have an optimistic style. ”
Quote from Learned Optimism Book by Martin Seligman
“ Pessimistic prophecies are self-fulfilling.”
Quote from Learned Optimism Book by Martin Seligman
“ The optimists believe defeat is just a temporary setback.”
Quote from Learned Optimism Book by Martin Seligman
“ It comes down to this: People who make universal explanations for their failures give up on everything when a failure strikes in one area. People who make specific explanations may become helpless in that one part of their lives yet march stalwartly on in the others.”
Quote from Learned Optimism Book by Martin Seligman
“ Changing the destructive things you say to yourself when you experience the setbacks that life deals all of us is the central skill of optimism. ”
Quote from Learned Optimism Book by Martin Seligman
“ To dispute your own beliefs, scan for all possible contributing causes. Focus on the changeable (not enough time spent studying), the specific (this particular exam was uncharacteristically hard) and the nonpersonal (the professor graded unfairly) causes. ”
Quote from Learned Optimism Book by Martin Seligman
“ While you can’t control your experiences, you can control your explanations.”
Quote from Learned Optimism Book by Martin Seligman
“ The defining characteristic of pessimists is that they tend to believe bad events will last a long time, will undermine everything they do, and are their own fault. ”
Quote from Learned Optimism Book by Martin Seligman
“ Depressed people – most of whom turn out to be pessimists – accurately judge how much control they have. Nondepressed people – optimists, for the most part – believe they have much more control over things than they actually do, particularly when they are helpless and have no control at all. ”
Quote from Learned Optimism Book by Martin Seligman
“ Habits of thinking need not be forever. One of the most significant findings in psychology in the last twenty years is that individuals can choose the way they think. ”
Quote from Learned Optimism Book by Martin Seligman
“ You learn to recognize the automatic thoughts flitting through your consciousness at the times you feel worst. ”
Quote from Learned Optimism Book by Martin Seligman
“ People who give up easily believe the causes of the bad events that happen to them are permanent: The bad events will persist, will always be there to affect their lives. People who resist helplessness believe the causes of bad events are temporary. ”
Quote from Learned Optimism Book by Martin Seligman
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