By Carol Grannick on November 9, 2009
Martin Seligman, Director of the Department of Positive Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania and researcher into learned optimism and happiness, uses a process of “disputation” evolving from cognitive therapy. This ABCDE process outlines the necessary steps to challenge Pessimistic Explanatory Style and change it to Optimistic Explanatory Style.
Why is this so important to writers? Because writers lose [...]
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