Positive Psychology
Presenter:
Martin Seligman
Time:
1:20:15
Summary
Founder of Positive Psychology, Martin Seligman, shares his groundbreaking ideas to help us flourish as individuals and contribute to a happier world. This talk was recorded at an Action for Happiness event at Friends House in London on 9 May 2016 www.actionforhappiness.org
Transcript
Oh, O over over dinner. Uh, Richard persuaded me, uh, he and Mark had seen my PowerPoint deck and he said, oh, that's the same old tedious stuff that you already know about. So, uh, uh, Richard persuaded me to, uh, uh, Give you 10 minutes on what's, uh, uh, at the forefront of what we're thinking about these days.
So I'll do 10 minutes on something that none of you would've heard about before, and then I'll give you 50 minutes of the same old, tedious stuff you know about. Um, the, uh, the first is what Richard, uh, mentioned about, uh, uh, our species is not homo sapiens. We're not good at wisdom and knowledge. That's aspirational.