If the spectrum of life possibilities ranges from −10 to +10, psychology had, until then, made extraordinary advances in the ability to move people from, say, −8 to zero. But we knew little about how to raise people above zero, to +6 or +10. Seligman invited psy chol o gists to imagine the contributions they could make if they shifted their focus beyond alleviating human suffering to include cultivating hu man flourishing.
