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Martin Seligman

Psychology used to be about disesas. Now it's about positives. Including cultivating genius.
Extremely happy people - very social. Happy people are social, but in the giggly sense.
Can psychology make people happier? Ie - pleasant (positive emotion), engagement (flow), and meaning.
- Pleasant is not so modifiable. Positive emotion withers away.
- Len was a cold fish. Positive affectivity - is the happiness. But it's not pleasure. It is flow. The good life.
- Flow- finding highest strengths and recrafting your life around those 5.
- Meaning - highest strengths - using them to something larger than yourself.
Design yourself a beautiful day.
Gratitude visit - give them a 300 word testimonial. It is powerful.
Strengths date - we both find something we are good at, and blow it up
Pursuit of pleasure does not make us happy. First is meaning, second is engagement, and then it's pleasure.

Sublimation