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I decided to read the entire book (349 pages) titled, Flourish, by Martin E.P. Seligman. He sectioned his book into two parts, â€Å"A New Positive Psychology† and â€Å"The Ways to Flourish.† The first part of the book, Seligman discusses his journey to discover the concept of â€Å"positive psychology.† A man who was a part of an anonymous foundation contacted him and presented Seligman with hefty funds for an opportunity of a lifetime—to study and research any subject he wishes and report on it. He chose the topic, â€Å"Positive Psychology† as the subject he would then focus a substantial amount of his time and research on. In doing so, he was able to find scientific reasoning for how people achieve happiness in their lives. Once Seligman takes the time and space to explain his concept of flourishing and positive psychology, he then focuses the second part of his book on how to implement and maintain those concepts in your life. Overall, he divides his entire book into 10 chapters, which are: well-being, positive psychology, drugs and therapy, teaching well-being, positive education, character and achievement, being psychologically fit, turning trauma into growth, the biology of optimism, and the politics and economics of well-being. With each chapter/topic, Seligman is able to reach an extremely diverse audience with very different needs. He uses certain chapters to focus on what an individual may add to their lives to find more happiness; he uses other chapters to emphasize whatShow MoreRelatedDiscussion And Analysis Of Being Active Ppi Into My Daily Schedule1250 Words   |  5 Pagesvaluable PPI is because it also causes you to change your life in other ways. In the book Flourish, author Martin E.P. Seligman describes a very interesting concept known as the PERMA model. The PERMA model stands for â€Å"Positive emotion, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, and Accomplishments† (Seligman, M. E. P. (2012). This model describes what one must have in their life in order to, as the title states, flourish. My PPI obviously included positive emotion, but it also increased my engagement withRead MoreOne Significant Change That Has Occurred in the World Between 1900 and 2005. Explain the Impact This Change Has Made on Our Lives and Why It Is an Important Change.163893 Words   |  656 Pagesinto Greece and the Balkans, and Muslims who moved into Asia Minor were the precursors of the mass refugee movements of the twentieth century, as were the 1 million Armenians expelled from Turkey after 1915.30 Merchant diasporas also continued to flourish, including Lebanese merchants, who spread throughout the world and became especially prominent in West Africa, and Hadramis and Omanis from the southern Arabian peninsula, who moved throughout the Indian Ocean regions from eastern Africa to Java