Second Thoughts

Character Strengths, Not A Disorder. You Have A Hard Life

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"Everybody's life is hard."

Character strengths, not a diagnosis. In 1999 Martin Seligman, then president of the American Psychological Association, wrote a farewell address that said the future of psychology is not in psychopathology. The field had strayed from what got it into business in the first place, which is how to define human flourishing.

Seligman, Chris Peterson, Mihaly…