Welcome to Litsy!

This definitely was not the book I had hoped for. It seemed more into the research aspects of learned helplessness. It isn't a bad book, by any means... It was just more scientific and less helpful than I had hoped. It might not be that way for you, though. Maybe it will help.

Depression, I have argued, stems partly from an overcommitment to the self and an undercommitment to the common good.

Pessimistic prophecies are self-fulfilling.

The skills of becoming happy turn out to be almost entirely different from the skills of not being sad, not being anxious, or not being angry.

Curing the negatives does not produce the positives.

While you can't control your experiences, you can control your explanations.

"Learned optimism works not through an unjustifiable positivity about the world but through the power of "non-negative" thinking."

The skills of becoming happy turn out to be almost entirely different from the skills of not being sad, not being anxious, or not being angry.

In my journey to stop letting my anxiety and depression take over my life I have come upon a book to help me change my inner dialogue from negative to more positive. #bookworm #booknerd