The power of a positive attitude has been supported by research. Martin Seligman at the University of Pennsylvania, who pioneered the field of positive psychology, conducted studies showing that those who attributed setbacks to the larger, imperfect world (“It’s not all my fault”), who framed periods of adversity not as personal failures but part of a process of growth (“I learned so much”), were less prone to depression and more resilient. Or as my husband, Chris, would say to me at the end of many long, soul-searching conversations, “The NBC experience was something you needed to go through.
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