Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life is a book authored by Martin Seligman. The book is a treatise on how optimism enhances the quality of life, and how anyone can learn to practice it.
About the Author
Martin Seligman
Seligman’s experiments in the sixties put dogs in situations where nothing they did stopped the shocks, and showed they stopped trying even once escape became possible; learned helplessness became a standard model of depression. He then turned the idea over. Learned Optimism argues that explanatory…