Breaking Murphy's law how optimists get what they want from life-- and pessimists can too
| Main Author: | Segerstrom, Suzanne C. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Guilford Press,
c2006.
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: stop trying to be so happy
- Glass half full, glass half empty, or glass that needs to be washed? the optimistic character
- The persistence instinct: optimists and their goals
- Building (and rebuilding) for the future: optimists and their resources
- So happy together: optimists and their relationships
- Mixed blessing: optimists and their health
- Everything good, especially the bad: optimists and their vulnerabilities
- Is an optimist born or made? the optimistic character revisited
- Doing optimism: optimists, pessimists, and their potential for change
- Epilogue: confessions of a reluctant optimist.