On Aug 25, 8:19 pm, Tom Adams said > Optimist have the ability to sustain effort toward a goal if there is > a glimmer of hope. In certain situations, that obviously leads to a > better success rate. Picking up women in a bar comes to mind, but > there are more serious examples. > > I am not sure if the pessimist-realist connection is quite as strong > as Seligman presents. He reports on an experiment that shows optimist > tend to have an illusion of control, but I don't think the > reproducibility of that experiment has been good since the book was > published.
I liked Seligman's TED lecture "Why is psychology good?" ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FBxfd7DL3E ) I think heeding what he says about "what makes life worth living" could be very useful as our society hits peak oil and climate change related dysfunction. Phil --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Global Change ("globalchange") newsgroup. Global Change is a public, moderated venue for discussion of science, technology, economics and policy dimensions of global environmental change. Posts will be admitted to the list if and only if any moderator finds the submission to be constructive and/or interesting, on topic, and not gratuitously rude. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/globalchange -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
