PCI Weekly Issue #10: Positive Psychology

The Science of Human Flourishing

A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Welcome to another issue of PCI Weekly, the newsletter that helps you become more powerful, creative, and influential in life and business through the study and application of NLP, Personal Development, and related disciplines.

This week’s issue is all about positive psychology. Positive Psychology began as a new domain of psychology back in 1998 when Martin Seligman chose it as his theme for his term as president of the American Psychological Association. It was created as a reaction against past practices which focused on mental illnesses and which emphasized maladaptive behavior and negative thinking.

In this week’s issue, we’re going to share 3 resources regarding Positive Psychology to help you learn more about this innovative field and improve your quality of life.

Let’s dive in.

Positive Psychology Strategies for Increased Happiness

In this article, you’ll discover:

• How happiness is defined by positive psychology and how it differs from other views.

• What factors affect your happiness and how much power you have over them.

• The PERMA framework of well-being, which consists of five components: positive emotion, engagement, relationships, meaning, and accomplishment.

• Some easy tips and techniques to improve your happiness and life satisfaction based on positive psychology findings.

If you want to learn how positive psychology can help you live a better and more fulfilling life, click here to read the full article.

The 5 Founding Fathers and A History of Positive Psychology

In this article, you’ll learn about:

• The origins of positive psychology in the context of different waves of modern psychology, from structuralism and functionalism to psychoanalysis and behaviorism.

• The influence of humanistic psychology and the human potential movement on the development of positive psychology, especially the work of Abraham Maslow, who first coined the term “positive psychology”.

• The contributions of the five founding fathers of positive psychology: William James, Martin Seligman, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Christopher Peterson, and Edward Diener.

• The key influencers of positive psychology who have shaped the field with their theories and research, such as Albert Bandura, Don Clifton, Edward Deci and Richard Ryan, Carol Dweck, and Barbara Fredrickson.

If you are interested in learning more about the history of positive psychology and the rise of this field, you can read the full article here.

The new era of positive psychology

Here’s a TED Talk that Martin Seligman did on Positive Psychology.