Learned Optimism Quotes

“Optimists recover from their momentary helplessness immediately. Very soon after failing, they pick themselves up, shrug, and start trying again.”
― Seligman Martin, Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

“This crisis and its resolution shaped their explanatory style for bad events, making it temporary, specific, and external.”
― Seligman Martin, Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

“During Pavlovian conditioning they felt the shocks go on and off regardless of whether they struggled or jumped or barked or did nothing at all. They had concluded, or “learned,” that nothing they did mattered. So why try?”
― Martin E.P. Seligman, Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

“But clinical psychologists also began to find something disconcerting emerging from therapy: even on that rare occasion when therapy goes superbly and unusually well, and you help the client rid herself of depression, anxiety, and anger, happiness is not guaranteed. Emptiness is not an uncommon result.”
― Martin E.P. Seligman, Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

“People who made certain kinds of explanations, he believed, are prey to helplessness.”
― Martin E.P. Seligman, Learned Optimism

“explanatory style is the great modulator of learned helplessness. Optimists recover from their momentary helplessness immediately. Very soon after failing, they pick themselves up, shrug, and start trying again. For them, defeat is a challenge, a mere setback on the road to inevitable victory. They see defeat as temporary and specific, not pervasive. Pessimists wallow in defeat, which they see as permanent and pervasive. They become depressed and stay helpless for very long periods. A setback is a defeat. And a defeat in one battle is the loss of the war. They don’t begin to try again for weeks or months, and if they try, the slightest new setback throws them back into a helpless state.”
― Martin E.P. Seligman, Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

“Learning beforehand that responding matters actually prevents learned helplessness”
― Seligman Martin, Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

“What is crucial is what you think when you fail, using the power of “non-negative thinking”
― Seligman Martin, Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

“Our physical health is something over which we can have far greater personal control than we probably suspect”
― Seligman Martin, Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

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― Martin E.P. Seligman, Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

“Our theory had been that optimism matters because it produces persistence.”
― Martin E.P. Seligman, Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

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― Martin E.P. Seligman, Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

“The fundamental guideline for not deploying optimism is to ask what the cost of failure is in the particular situation. If the cost of failure is high, optimism is the wrong strategy.”
― Martin E.P. Seligman, Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

“Ten years ago Lauren Alloy and Lyn Abramson, then graduate students at the University of Pennsylvania, did an experiment in which people were given differing degrees of control over the lighting of a light. Some were able to control the light perfectly: It went on every time they pressed a button, and it never went on if they didn’t press. The other people, however, had no control at all: The light went on regardless of whether they pressed the button.”
― Martin E.P. Seligman, Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

“Women are twice as likely to suffer depression as men are, because on the average they think about problems in ways that amplify depression. Men tend to act rather than reflect, but women tend to contemplate their depression, mulling it over and over, trying to analyze it and determine its source. Psychologists call this process of obsessive analysis rumination, a word whose first meaning is “chewing the cud.” Ruminant animals, such as cattle, sheep, and goats, chew a cud composed of regurgitated, partially digested food—not a very appealing image of what people who ruminate do with their thoughts, but an exceedingly apt one. Rumination combined with pessimistic explanatory style is the recipe for severe depression. This ends the bad news. The good news is that both pessimistic explanatory style and rumination can be changed, and changed permanently. Cognitive therapy can create optimistic explanatory style and curtail rumination. It prevents new depressions by teaching the skills needed to bounce back from defeat. You will see how it works on others, and then you will learn how to use its techniques on yourself.”
― Martin E.P. Seligman, Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

“For the first time in history—because of technology and mass production and distribution, and for other reasons—large numbers of people are able to have a significant measure of choice and therefore of personal control over their lives. Not the least of these choices concerns our own habits of thinking. By and large, people have welcomed that control. We belong to a society that grants to its individual members powers they have never had before, a society that takes individuals’ pleasures and pains very seriously, that exalts the self and deems personal fulfillment a legitimate goal, an almost sacred right.”
― Martin E.P. Seligman, Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

“For optimists, defeat is a challenge, a mere setback on the road to inevitable victory.”
― Martin E.P. Seligman, Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

“She sees bad events in their least threatening light. To her, they are temporary and surmountable, challenges to be overcome.”
― Seligman Martin, Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

“So it is possible that the twin epidemics among young people in the United States today, depression and violence, both come from this misbegotten concern: valuing how our young people feel about themselves more highly than how we value how well they are doing in the world. If”
― Martin E.P. Seligman, Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

“When we need spiritual furniture, we look around and see that all the comfortable leather sofas and stuffed chairs have been removed and all that’s left to sit on is a small, frail folding chair: the self. And the maximal self, stripped of the buffering of any commitment to what is larger in life, is a setup for depression.”
― Martin E.P. Seligman, Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

“Life begins in utter helplessness. The newborn infant cannot help himself, for hefn1 is almost entirely a creature of reflex. When he cries, his mother comes, although this does not mean that he controls his mother’s coming. His crying is a mere reflex reaction to pain and discomfort. He has no choice about whether he cries.”
― Martin E.P. Seligman, Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

“depression and helplessness were the same by showing they had the same brain-chemical mechanisms.”
― Martin E.P. Seligman, Learned Optimism

“Nature has buffered our children not only physically-- prepubescent children have the lowest death rate from all causes-- but psychologically as well, by endowing them with hope, abundant and irrational.”
― Martin E.P. Seligman, Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

“Nature has buffered out children not only physically--prepubescent children have the lowest death rate from all causes-- but psychologically as well, by endowing them with hope, abundant and irrational.”
― Martin E.P. Seligman, Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

“Таким образом, теперь мы располагаем доказательствами существования трёх факторов, влияющих на стиль объяснений вашего ребёнка. Во-первых, повседневный анализ услышанного от родителей, особенно от матери. Если ваш стиль оптимистичен, то его будет таким же. Во-вторых, критические замечания, которые он слышит, когда терпит неудачу. Если они будут содержать устойчивые и универсальные суждения, его представление о самом себе будет пессимистичным. В-третьих, переживание потери и травмы в раннем возрасте. Если такой опыт будет смягчён, у него сформируется устойчивое мнение, что плохие события можно изменить и преодолеть. Но если этот опыт будет неизменен и всеобъемлющ, то беспомощность пустит глубокие корни.”
― Seligman Martin, Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

“Тогда он решил выяснить, что отличает тех женщин, которые в этих тяжёлых условиях впали в депрессивное состояние, от тех, которые оказались неуязвимы. В результате он выделил три защитных фактора. Даже наличия одного из них достаточно для того, чтобы женщина могла избежать депрессии даже перед лицом тяжёлых потерь и лишений. Первый защитный фактор — интимные отношения с мужем или любовником. Такие женщины успешно сопротивляются депрессии. Второй фактор — работа вне дома. Третий — количество детей: в семье должно быть не более двух детей в возрасте до четырнадцати лет, о которых необходимо заботиться.”
― Seligman Martin, Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

“Бертран Рассел говорил, что признаком цивилизованного человека является способность посмотреть на колонку цифр и заплакать.”
― Seligman Martin, Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

“La vida causa los mismos contratiempos y las mismas tragedias tanto a optimistas como a pesimistas, pero los primeros saben afrontarlos mejor. Según hemos visto, el optimista se rehace de su derrota y, si bien con algunas pérdidas, se recompone para volver a luchar. El pesimista, en cambio, se desmorona, se rinde y cae en la depresión. Merced a su capacidad de reacción, el optimista alcanza mejores resultados en lo que hace, sea el trabajo, la escuela o el deporte. El optimista goza de mejor salud y puede vivir más.”
― Martin Seligman, Aprenda optimismo. Haga de la vida una experiencia maravillosa

“La vida causa los mismos contratiempos y las mismas tragedias tanto a optimistas como a pesimistas, pero los primeros saben afrontarlos mejor.”
― Martin Seligman, Aprenda optimismo. Haga de la vida una experiencia maravillosa

“el fracaso es huérfano y el éxito tiene muchos padres.”
― Martin Seligman, Aprenda optimismo. Haga de la vida una experiencia maravillosa