Author Seligman, Martin E. P.

Title Flourish : a visionary new understanding of happiness and well-being / Martin E.P. Seligman.

Pub Info New York : Free Press, 2011.

Edition 1st Free Press hardcover ed.

Table of Contents
	Preface					1
	Part 1: A New Positive Psychology					3
ch. 1	What Is Well-Being?					5
	The Birth of a New Theory					9
	The Original Theory: Authentic Happiness					11
	From Authentic Happiness Theory to Well-Being Theory					13
	Well-Being Theory					14
	The Elements of Well-Being					16
	Kindness Exercise					21
	Flourishing as the Goal of Positive Psychology					26
ch. 2	Creating Your Happiness: Positive Psychology Exercises That Work					30
	The Gratitude Visit					30
	Can Well-Being Be Changed?					31
	What-Went-Well Exercise					33
	Positive Psychology Interventions and Cases					35
	Signature Strengths Exercise					38
	Positive Psychotherapy					40
ch. 3	The Dirty Little Secret of Drugs and Therapy					45
	Cure Versus Symptom Relief					46
	The 65 Percent Barrier					47
	Active, Constructive Responding					48
	Dealing with Negative Emotions					51
	A New Approach to Cure					53
	Applied Psychology Versus Basic Psychology: Problems Versus Puzzles					55
	Wittgenstein, Popper, and Penn					56
ch. 4	Teaching Well-Being: The Magic of MAPP					63
	The First MAPP					64
	Ingredients of Applied Positive Psychology					66
	Intellectually Challenging Applicable Content					66
	Personal and Professional Transformation					70
	Transformations					71
	Called to Positive Psychology					75
ch. 5	Positive Education: Teaching Well-Being to Young People					78
	Should Well-Being Be Taught in School?					79
	The Penn Resiliency Program: A Way to Teach Well-Being in School					81
	Three-Good-Things Exercise					84
	Using Signature Strengths in New Ways					84
	The Geelong Grammar School Project					85
	Teaching Positive Education					89
	Embedding Positive Education					90
	Living Positive Education					92
	Positive Computing					93
	A New Measure of Prosperity					96
	Part 2: The Ways To Flourish					99
ch. 6	GRIT, Character, and Achievement: A New Theory of Intelligence					101
	Success and Intelligence					102
	Positive Character					103
	Drawn by the Future, Not Driven by the Past					104
	What Intelligence Is					106
	Speed					106
	The Virtue of Slowness					110
	Executive Function					112
	Rate of Learning: The First Derivative of Speed					113
	Self-Control and GRIT					115
	GRIT Versus Self-Discipline					118
	High Human Accomplishment					119
	GRIT's Benefits					122
	Building the Elements of Success					124
ch. 7	Army Strong: Comprehensive Soldier Fitness					126
	A Psychologically Fit Army					126
	Global Assessment Tool (GAT)					129
	Online Courses					137
	Emotional Fitness Module					139
	Family Fitness Module					142
	Social Fitness Module					143
	Spiritual Fitness Module					149
ch. 8	Turning Trauma into Growth					152
	Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder					152
	Post-Traumatic Growth					159
	Post-Traumatic Growth Course					161
	Post-Traumatic Growth Inventory					161
	Master Resilience Training					163
	Building Mental Toughness					167
	The Hot Seat: Fighting Catastrophic Thoughts in Real Time					169
	Hunt the Good Stuff					171
	Character Strengths					171
	Building Strong Relationships					173
	The Rollout					177
ch. 9	Positive Physical Health: The Biology of Optimism					182
	Turning Medicine on Its Head					182
	Origins of Learned Helplessness Theory					184
	Cardiovascular Disease (CVD)					190
	Infectious Illness					194
	Cancer and All-Cause Mortality					200
	Is Well-Being Causal, and How Might It Protect?					204
	Positive Health					208
	Army Database: A National Treasure					211
	Cardiovascular Health Assets					213
	Exercise as a Health Asset '					214
ch. 10	The Politics and Economics of Well-Being					221
	Beyond Money					221
	The Divergence Between GDP and Well-Being					222
	The Financial Downturn					228
	Ethics Versus Values					228
	Optimism and Economics					232
	Reflexive and Nonreflexive Reality					234
	PERMA 51					237
	Appendix: Signature Strengths Test					243
	Thanks and Acknowledgments					267
	Notes					271
	Index					321