Positive Psychology: Founded by the psycholgist Martin Seligman, represents a consortium of psychologists that investigates, catalogs, and promotes the signature virtues, strengths, and skills that when developed lead to sustained happiness. These attributes can represent any number of things, from knot tying, swimming, and camping to helping little old ladies cross the street. The positive psychology movement thus has proven that you don't need Socratic self doubt for happiness, but the sunny disposition and upbeat philosophy of the Boy Scouts, which of course the movement copies to a T, and of course fits the needs of busy men and women who don't have time to stop and think.
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