{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Chapter 165: Martin Seligman on overcoming overthinking and opting for optimism","description":" Happy full moon, everybody! It is the harvest moon and our leaves are falling here in Toronto. Time for change! Unavoidable, right? Sure, but maybe ... we can control how we react to it. My guest today has spent nearly six decades (!) studying \u200blearned optimism\u200b, \u200bauthentic happiness\u200b, \u200bhuman flourishing\u200b, and (his latest pursuit!) \u200bagency\u200b and his work is cited by thousands and taught in psychology courses worldwide. I am thrilled to come to 3 Books the co-founder of positive psychology Dr. Martin Seligman! In 1998, Marty was elected President of the \u200bAmerican Psychological Association\u200b by the largest vote in its history. He launched positive psychology\u2014he created it!\u2014with \u200bMihaly Csikszentmihalyi\u200b, the psychologist who gave us '\u200bFlow\u200b,' and his work helped shape and influence so much of what we think about our minds and including past 3 Books guests \u200bSonja Lyubomirsky\u200b and \u200bShawn Achor\u200b. Working at the University of Pennsylvania and \u200bfounding the Positive Psychology Center\u200b, where he's the Zellerbach Family Professor of Psychology, Martin's lab has run everything from the Penn Resilience Program, which has trained teachers and students around the world, to large-scale resilience programs for the U.S. Army, to more recent work on human progress and agency. Which brings us to his new book! '\u200bAgency: The Psychological History of Human Progress\u200b' just came out a few weeks ago and it's an ambitious project analyzing millennia of history\u2014from Periclean Athens and the Hebrew Torah through the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and the Civil Rights Movement\u2014with Martin arguing that the hidden engine of human progress isn't geography or money or war ... but agency itself. Tune in as we discuss what agency is, how humans have progressed over centuries, techniques to overcome overthinking, how to use AI to positively impact our lives, whether AI is a new species, positive psychology tips to building strong marriages, abundant living, sexual desire, the definition of a good leader, and of course ... Martin Seligman's 3 most formative books. Let's flip the page to Chapter 165 now ... ","author_name":"3 Books With Neil Pasricha","author_url":"http:\/\/www.3books.co","html":"