Brilliant Positive Psychology

6 brilliant positive psychology

psychology. There is no area of life that cannot take something

from knowing more about what supports human flourishing.

How positive psychology as an idea came to be

‘Positive psychology’ was born on a beach in New Mexico.

It was here that there was a chance encounter between Dr

Martin Seligman and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, after Seligman

responded to hearing someone (who turned out to be Mihaly)

in difficulty in the sea and rescued him. After this strange

meeting the two men discovered that they were working in the

same direction: both were interested in furthering knowledge

and reclaiming ...