Martin Seligman's thoughts on Positive Health
Bloggingheads.tv: A conversation with Robert Wright and Christopher Peterson
Topics include:
- The remarkable health benefits of being an optimist 6:39
- Chris: Optimistic people believe in personal agency 3:00
- Why pessimists are more likely to die young 7:27
- Optimism's effect on cardiovascular health 8:50
- So what's a pessimist to do? 7:19
- Is there nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so? 4:07
Bloggingheads.tv: A conversation with Robert Wright and Darwin Labarthe
Topics include:
- What is positive cardiovascular health? 6:50
- Crunching Bob's cholesterol numbers 6:11
- Darwin: How to reduce your risk of heart attack 6:35
- Bob longs for hedonistic fatalism 6:26
- Personality traits that are bad for the heart 6:30
- How Obamacare can prevent heart disease 7:20
TED Talks - Martin Seligman: The new era of positive psychology
The concept of Positive Health originated from Positive Psychology, now a highly regarded field that once began as an innovative but foreign concept to the psychology community. The concept has burgeoned into a full-fledged field of study and is well-accepted worldwide. If Positive Health were to do the same, it could change the way we think about health and health care.
