Flourish Kindle Books
Flourish
“This book will help you thrive.” With this unprecedented assure, internationally renowned psychologist Martin Seligman starts flourish, his 1st book in ten years & the first of its new, dynamic idea of what the nicely-being is truly there. Typically, the target of psychology, into minimize human struggling, but has the target of constructive psychology motion, which Dr. Seligman for fifteen a long time, is different, it can be about, actually elevated the bar for the human problem. Flourish is based on game-altering function of Dr. Seligman’s optimism, inspiration & character into currently how you get the most out of existence, unveiling an electrifying new concept, what makes a excellent existence for men & women, communities & nation
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May 17th, 2011 at 6:03 am
A Passionate Defense of Something Important,
This is not a great book and it certainly has its flaws. However, it is a fairly well written book by Martin Seligman, one of the founders of Positive Psychology, and provides a passionate argument for his latest thinking on well being. He has changed his views over the last decade and he explains how and why in this book. The topic is important and if Seligman is right, he has made a major contribution to human flourishing with his work.
I read Barbara Ehrenrich’s Bright-Sided: How Positive Thinking Is Undermining America a while back and I admit that it caused me to doubt to some degree Seligman’s credibility. Shame on me and this book showed me how wrong I was to let her influence me in that regard.
If you are looking for a step-by-step recipe for flourishing, a traditional type of self-help book, you will not find it here. This book is much more theoretical and it spends a lot of time on the evidence and research for Seligman’s views on well being. Having said that, you certainly can glean what it takes to flourish from reading it. I just want to make clear this book is mostly about theory and evidence and not about practical steps individuals can take on their own.
My biggest complaint about the book is that it spends too much time detailing specific projects the author is currently working on or has worked on in the past. He spends two full chapters on his work with the army. He does that to support his argument and to some degree I think to establish his credibility. While it is somewhat interesting, it’s just too much.
If you are interested in a theory of human flourishing then I think this book would be a valuable addition to your library. I definitely recommend it.
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|May 17th, 2011 at 6:36 am
A delicious appetizer but lacking the main course,
Dr. Seligman starts off reviewing why he has moved on from authentic happiness to well-being. While not giving up on authentic happiness, he argues that while happiness is an important concept, the notion of well-being involves a number of factors in addition to happiness.
The book is comprehensive in nature, covering everything from happiness to sex in space to a denial that he ever helped the U.S. military develop torture techniques. That comprehensiveness, is however, the book’s weakness as well as its strength. The book does start with ways to achieve well-being at a personal level, including some exercises to do so. Just as it began to get interesting on that topic, the author switches to introducing well-being into the education system and just as that becomes interesting he switches to well-being in the military and so on. He also has a tendency to go off on tangents throughout the book, further diminishing the book’s focus. Because of this it was hard to discern the target audience of the book, with some parts being suitable to the lay-person while others were best suited to psychologists or similar professionals.
Having said all that, I did enjoy the book and found the occasional gem of wisdom. However as stated in a previous critique, this is not a self-help book and those wishing to learn how to flourish will be disappointed. I would recommend his prior book Authentic Happiness for those wanting to learn self-improvement. For those wanting an overview of positive psychology and the various settings it could be used in, the book does provide a basic overall introduction to the subject area. However it does not contain much information that would be useful to the lay-person or to clinicians and their clients.
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