Seligman Vs Csikszentmihalyi Essay

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As I watched the two videos, I notice that, Seligman and Csikszentmihalyi, had similarities on many issues. I found myself agreeing with them both? The reason why I agreed with both was because they both presented relevant experiences in their lives. Csikszentmihalyi states; “His live experience by introducing his life story as; “Then I came to this country to study psychology and I started trying to understand the roots of happiness. This is a typical result that many people have presented, and there are many variations on it. But this, for instance, shows that about 30 percent of the people surveyed in the United States since 1956 say that their life is very happy. And that has not changed at all. Whereas the personal income, on a scale that has been held constant to accommodate for inflation, has more than doubled, almost tripled, in that period. But you find the same results, namely, that after a certain basic point -- which corresponds more or less to just a few 1,000 dollars above the minimum poverty level -- increases in material well-being don't seem to affect how happy people …show more content…

play); (4) create conditions in which people are encouraged to “grapple and grow” by taking prudent risks that are exciting learning opportunities, and (5) do anything and everything possible to help people “shine” with pride in what they have achieved, joy in having done it with pleasure, and confidence that that this “Cycle of Excellence” will be self-perpetuating. In reflection of Hallowell I think he found human self in his

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