The optimistic child
by Martin Elias Pete Seligman · first published 1995
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…years when those school programs were put in place. In other words, don't just rely on intuition about what would be helpful, but look into actual research. Seligman's books Learned Optimism[1] and The Optimistic Child[2] are both helpful, although there should be some even newer research out by now. Reading those books may help you deal with the challenges of working on this interesting project while keeping up with…
on “Ask HN: I'm 15, won a grant to develop a suicide prevention app, what next?” ↗The personality psychologists I know tell me that Martin E. P. Seligman, the originator of the idea of "learned helplessness" and the author of helpful books such as The Optimistic Child, advised his student Angela Duckworth to call "grit" by that term as a marketing move to make people pay more attention to the idea. In the psychology literature, people have been writing for a long time…
on “Is ‘grit’ overrated in explaining student success?” ↗…homeschoolers as our children have grown up, and our firstborn sent me a very kind email on Father's Day two years ago telling me he is glad I did that. He still thinks so two years later. 3) The book The Optimistic Child[C] by Martin E. P. Seligman is good for teaching children how to deal with inevitable problems and setbacks of human life. 4) The book Mindset[D] by Carol Dweck is a very good book on helping young people…
on “How to raise successful children” ↗…http://www.davidsongifted.org/youngscholars/ we have learned about--and have shared--resources with other parents about building optimism in children. I especially like Martin E. P. Seligman's book The Optimistic Child http://www.amazon.com/Optimistic-Child-Safeguard-Depression-... as a framework for children to learn how to reality-check their own thinking and not to be depressed by setbacks in life.
on “Relationships between Depression and High Intellectual Potential (2012)” ↗…"self-esteem" movement in schools when your generation was in school was harmful to school pupils, not giving them the resources to be resilient when facing adversity. See Martin E. P. Seligman's book The Optimistic Child http://www.amazon.com/Optimistic-Child-Depression-BuildLifel... (this book is good for adults too, even if they are not parents) for more information about how "optimism" differs from "self-esteem."…
on “Ask HN: Why is our generation so depressed?” ↗sown, please jump to that Wikipedia article and look at Seligman's publications (at the bottom). You MUST read his book "The Optimistic Child", which you can probably get from your local library. The wording of your posts comes right off the pages of that book, and you're old enough and smart enough now to consider the phenomena described in…
on “Never mind talent: Practice, practice, practice” ↗…moment, but here's a couple to start off with: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Reimer https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-scientific-fundamen... For further reading, you can browse through "The Optimistic Child" by Doctor Martin Seligman.
on “Three Wise Men in a Bed: Bedsharing and Sexuality in Medieval Europe (2014)” ↗…chose to devote his remaining time to prevent others from committing suicide. "'I've always wanted to focus on trying to leave the world a better place,' he says." Martin E. P. Seligman, in his book The Optimistic Child,[1] reviews some of the research current to about a decade ago about "self-esteem" programs in schools. They have long been known to be dangerous. The rising suicide rate compared to earlier birth cohorts…
on “40,000 suicides annually, yet America simply shrugs” ↗…by R. Sativihari The Devil's Pleasure Palace, by Michael Walsh The Truth about Everything, by Matthew Stewart The Big Questions, by Steven Landsburg The Seven Mysteries of Life, by Guy Murchie The Optimistic Child, by Martin Seligman Systemantics, by John Gall The Scientists A Family Romance, by Marco Roth The Logic Of Failure, by Dietrich Dorner Organizing Creativity, by Daniel Wessel A Curious Mind, by Brian…
on “Ask HN: What books have you read in the first half of 2016?” ↗Seligman also teaches children to speak specifically about negative topics (2007 book, The Optimistic Child). His research says that a more optimistic speech pattern can be learned, where you actively reduce "always" sorts of words. He claims to have proven outcomes in reducing depression rates after several…
on “People with Depression Use Language Differently” ↗