In this chapter author has shared his personal story about him and his father, in this chapter author says that people who are optimist they see any situation as a specific situation while any person who os pessimist will see those situations as general case, for example, if two people work at the same office and they both are team leaders, first one is pessimist and the other one is optimist, so while working on the team assignment if one person doesn’t work properly, then pessimist as such situation will say the entire god damn team sucks and will mark every team member bad, whereas optimist person will not say everyone is bad, he will say that only one person isn’t working properly but rest can be good. Here author wants us to understand that for optimist person problems are temporary and for pessimist person problems are permanent, Optimist always work for the solution, they never regret about the same thing or they don’t drag negative situations or thinking for long, they understand things and come up with solutions positively. Here author said that those couples had two way of thinking related to the same situation, for father that situation was permanent and for him there wasn’t a solution, he was very much pessimist about the situation and he was thinking all bad, while on the other side mother was patient calmed and for her situations or negativity isn’t permanent she knows that every situation can get solved and every situation has solution and we can overcome them. In this chapter author has shared a story about parents, where they have just face the happiness of their new born baby, Father went near his newborn daughter who was sleeping, he was feeling awesome, hie heart was overflowing with awe and gratitude for the beauty of her, when he was looking at her newborn suddenly opened her eyes, and started staring her father, looking her he was feeling so great hence he started calling her name, while calling her name he expected that she will react, he thought maybe she will turn her head or smile, but nothing happened she didn’t even move her eyes, then again he tried something new to see her expressions, he picked up the furry little toy and shakes it, that toy has bells, so its started ringing but still baby eye didn’t move, looking this kind of behavior father heart started beating fast, he called his wife and told her, that something isn’t well with their baby girl, he said that maybe she is deaf, listening to this his wife replied that no it’s too early to make any assumptions or saying anything, she said we should wait, right now she is too small, we should first go meet a doctor then should come up with anything.īut still he wasn’t feeling good, he was upset, he started thinking all negative stuff, he started analyzing his daughter future, like how will she manage socially, how will she able to connect with people, how others will look at her, but that baby girl’s mom was patient, she wasn’t getting upset and she wasn’t behaving pessimist. This book has three parts and each part has various chapters Part 1 of Learned Optimism Summary: The Quest Chapter 1: Two ways of looking life Let’s understand this book in more detail. Learned happiness is 1990 national book seller book, this book defines the concept of learned happiness, in this book author says that learned optimism is a theory which says that happiness is a skill that can be developed, This theory revolves around meeting the negative self-talk head on and encourage the development of inner voice, doing this allows people to move from pessimism to optimism, in this book author martin covers all aspects of human’s life that is love, money, sports, health and parenting, this book has the capability to change worst pessimist thinkers to optimist. Martin Writing career started when he began to comprehend and implement the theory of positive thinking and optimism, he has written several books, which includes The optimistic child, The child’s play, learned optimism and authentic happiness. from Pennsylvania University, Martin is also an Educator, writer and a former president of the American Psychological Association. Seligman, He is an American born psychology professor he has done Ph.D. Seligmanīook size: 336 pages Overview: Learned Optimism Summaryīefore talking about the book Learned Optimism Summary lets first discuss the author Martin E.P. Blog Title: Learned Optimism Summary By Martin E.
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