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A Technology for Human Flourishing

Flourish (Seligman 2012)

An insightful look at the meaning of life, Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-being distills Flourishing into five components (PERMA) and discusses exciting work underway in a variety of arenas to thereby boost human well-being.

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Character Strengths Matter (Polly & Britton 2015)

With contribution by over thirty leading Positive Psychologists, Character Strengths Matter: How to Live a Full Life (Positive Psychology News) covers each of 24 character strengths -- discussing that strength and suggesting five ways to build it.

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Character Strengths and Virtues (Peterson & Seligman 2004)

A definitive foundation for Flourishing, Character Strengths and Virtues: A Handbook and Classification is the key work that first described a distillation of human goodness into the 24 Centric Skills (a.k.a. character strengths).

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Mindset (Dweck 2007)

The well-received Mindset: The New Psychology of Success convincingly portrays how a Growth Mindset, one of the zZense Foundational Skills, leads to greater success in contrast to a fixed mindset, irrespective of inborn talent or intelligence.

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