Author(s): Martin Seligman
Publisher: Free Press
Pages: 336
Binding: Paperback
Attitude is everything. If you think like a pessimist, you will become depressed and many things in your life will certainly go poorly. Pessimists believe that bad events are always their fault, will last a long time, and undermine everything. They feel helpless and may sink into depression. Optimists, on the other hand, believe that defeat is a temporary setback or a challenge; it doesn't knock them down. A nice antidote to the psychiatric establishment, which today tells us that physiology controls everything and attitude has nothing to do with depression. Seligman offers practical cognitive skills and suggestions to change your unhealthy attitudes.