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How to be happy: The optimist manifesto

By Michael Bond

13 April 2011

Psychology can and should do more than reduce mental suffering, argues positive psychology guru Martin Seligman in his persuasive book Flourish

I FIND relentless optimists a real pain, but there is no denying they are better off when it comes to health and well-being. They are, for example, less likely to get cardiovascular disease or to catch flu, and are at less risk of dying from any cause.

, founding father of the discipline of positive psychology, is a relentless optimist and as such should be a healthy man indeed. I expected to find him annoying in the…

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