WORD for the WEEK: LEARNED OPTIMISM
Do you ever look enviously at those people who always seem to see the glass as half-full? Have you ever bewailed your sad fate at being born a pessimist? If so, then bewail your fate no longer! The habits of the optimist mind can be learned, according to psychologist Martin Seligman, one of the early founders of the field of Positive Psychology. If you’d like to explore this concept of learned optimism, then I direct you to this coming week’s Word for the Week, on the board under the clock.