Learned Optimism. Optimism Is Essential For A Good And Successful Life You Too Can Acquire It

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Random House Australia
Publisher Place: Milsons Point
Publisher Year: 1990
Edition: First Edition

Description: 319 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Learned Optimism shows us how to stop automatically assuming guilt; how to get out of the habit of seeing the direst possible implications in every setback; how to be optimisitc. With concrete examples Dr Seligman, an expert on motivation, documents the effects of optimism on the quality of life, provides tests to determine the degree of our negative and positive orientation, and offers a program of specific exercises to help break the habit of pessimism and learn the habit of optimism for both ourselves and our children.

ISBN: 9780091825683