Perhaps he could improve his life and redirect the profession: “Positive psychology called to me just as the burning bush called to Moses.” What if, he began to wonder, he studied well-being instead of unhappiness, accomplishment instead of failure, strength instead of sickness? Perhaps psychology could become less fixated on neuroses, less dependent on Prozac, and, altogether, more useful. The work, as five-year-old Nikki noticed, made him gloomy, impatient, and critical. For many years, Seligman had been researching helplessness in animals and depression in human beings. According to Martin Seligman in his memoir, his young daughter’s rebuke as they were weeding the family garden together launched positive psychology: “If I can stop whining, you can stop being such a grouch,” she had said.
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