Brilliant Positive Psychology

Afterword 255

of cancer and heart disease but we also know that a diet of only

blueberries would be poisonous. Time and again the research

reveals the power of variety. Your strengths can be your weakness

if they are overused or used too narrowly, and your talents and

skills grow better when challenged in a new way.

The research to date, the subject and business of positive psy-

chology, should be used to inform and guide rather than dictate.

The subjective context in which happiness and well-being are

experienced is a complicated and perpetual interplay of how and

why we think and how and why we feel, which is both genetic ...