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Daily meaningful activities
using skills you already have
gets you into flow.
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Flow frequently brings outcomes:
Outcomes keep us going.
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we get derailed by bad mood
and lose our flow.
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Negativity captures our attention
more than positivity.
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due to the negative feedback loop:
Negativity and pessimism reinforce themselves.
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We need emotional stability to keep us going.
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Young elephant gets tied to a tree by a thin rope which it can’t break.
As an adult, it is constrained by the same thin rope and it doesn’t break free.
Because it learned it is no use to even try.
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[Martin Seligman]
[Philip Zimbardo]
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Personal Vision
Choice of attitude
We are free to choose our reaction to events.
[Viktor Frankl]
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We choose how we interpret our past.
(originally named Inner-game; not related to Timothy Gallwey’s work)
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Interpreting seemingly negative events
as neutral or even positive.
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Event → 😟/😐/😀
Failure → 😟
Failure → 😐/😀
Micro-habit that can be trained.
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[Martin Seligman] (Learned Optimism)
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At the end of every day,
think about 3 things
that went well for you.
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Increases positive emotions, hope and optimism.
Strengthens your focus on positive past.
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Done daily during dinner as a family.
Today, I liked that...