is not just about mental suffering it is also about lowered productivity and worsened physical health.
#Books about optimism how to#
Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life does away with the usual cliches of the self-help genre to deliver a clinical researcher’s crisp prescription for developing the cognitive skills necessary for transcending pessimism, which Seligman argues is fully escapable.Īs you read this book, you will see that there is an epidemic of depression among young adults and among children in the United States today. But his second book, originally published over 20 years ago, remains one of his most influential. Martin Seligman is a Brain Pickings regular - known for his research on learned helplessness and revered as the father of positive psychology, his Authentic Happiness is one of the 7 most essential books on the art and science of happiness, and his Flourish made our 2011 Summer Reading List. More importantly, it’s one of the most important handbooks to being a thoughtful, introspective and, yes, hopeful human being.
Published in 1943, translated into 180 languages since and adapted to just about every medium, Exupéry’s famous novella is one of the best-selling books of all time. It is very simple: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly what is essential is invisible to the eye.” Lyrical, charmingly written and beautifully illustrated, it sweeps you into a whirlwind of childhood imagination to peel away at the deepest truths about the world and our place in it. THE LITTLE PRINCEĪntoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince, one of our must– read children’s books with philosophy for grown-ups, is among the most poetic and hopeful reflections on human existence ever penned.
Here are seven wonderful books that help do just that with an arsenal ranging from the light visceral stimulation of optimistic design to the serious neuroscience findings about our proclivity for the positive. And while a healthy dose of cynicism and skepticism may help us get by, it’s in those times that we need nothing more than to embrace life’s promise of positivity with open arms. Every once in a while, we all get burned out.
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