
The Optimistic Child
A Proven Program to Safeguard Children Against Depression and Build Lifelong Resilience
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In The Optimistic Child, Dr. Martin E. P. Seligman offers parents, teachers, and coaches a well-validated program to prevent depression in children. In a 30-year study, Seligman and his colleagues discovered the link between pessimism-dwelling on the most catastrophic cause of any setback-and depression. Seligman shows adults how to teach children the skills of optimism that can help them combat depression, achieve more on the playing field and at school, and improve their physical health. As Seligman states in his afterword for this edition, "Teaching children optimism is more, I realized, than just correcting pessimism... It is the creation of a positive strength, a sunny but solid future-mindedness that can be deployed throughout life-not only to fight depression and to come back from failure, but also to be the foundation of success and vitality."
©1995 Martin E. P. Seligman, PhD, Karen Reivich, MA, Lisa Jaycox, PhD, and Jane Gillham, PhD; afterword copyright 2007 by Martin E. P. Seligman, PhD (P)2016 TantorListeners also enjoyed...
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A mental health expert sheds light on "gaslighting" - the manipulative technique used by sociopaths, narcissists, and others - offering practical strategies to cope and break free. Dr. Sarkis delves into the psychology behind the phenomenon, devoting chapters to specific scenarios, such as gaslighting in dating, in relationships, at work, and in families. With warning signs and examples of the destructive consequences along with practical tips and strategies, Gaslighting will help anyone trapped in a manipulative relationship to break free and heal from this toxic behavior.
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This book helped me through the toughest of times
- By Claudia on 12-10-18
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Design for How People Think
- Using Brain Science to Build Better Products
- By: John Whalen PhD
- Narrated by: Mitchell Dorian
- Length: 4 hrs and 43 mins
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User experience doesn’t happen on a screen; it happens in the mind, and the experience is multidimensional and multisensory. This practical book will help you uncover critical insights about how your customers think so you can create products or services with an exceptional experience. Corporate leaders, marketers, product owners, and designers will learn how cognitive processes from different brain regions form what we perceive as a singular experience. Author John Whalen shows you how anyone on your team can conduct "contextual interviews" to unlock insights.
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Generally Great Starter for Software UX Design
- By Michael on 03-02-25
By: John Whalen PhD
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Be Not Afraid of Love
- Lessons on Fear, Intimacy, and Connection
- By: Mimi Zhu
- Narrated by: Mimi Zhu
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
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In their early twenties, Mimi Zhu was a survivor of intimate-partner abuse. This left them broken, in search of healing and ways to re-learn love. This work is a testament to the strength and adaptability all humans possess, a tribute to love. Be Not Afraid of Love explores the intersections of love and fear in self-esteem, friendship, family dynamics, and romantic relationships, and extends out to its effects on society and the greater political realm.
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Buzzword Bingo
- By Albert Jia on 06-07-25
By: Mimi Zhu
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Believe in Yourself (Original Classic Edition)
- By: Joseph Murphy
- Narrated by: Jason Leikam
- Length: 1 hr and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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In his inspiring book, Believe in Yourself, Dr. Joseph Murphy shows you can make your life more rewarding and productive simply by embracing the power of believing. As you repeat the word success to yourself and do it with faith and conviction, your subconscious mind will accept it and you will find the success you seek. In Believe in Yourself, Murphy shows you the science of imagination in a vivid, intensely practical way as he illustrates his points with wonderful stories about how inventors, writers, artists, and entrepreneurs have used this power to reach the heights.
By: Joseph Murphy
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How to Heal Toxic Thoughts
- Simple Tools for Personal Transformation
- By: Sandra Ingerman
- Narrated by: Melissa Redmond
- Length: 2 hrs and 44 mins
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We may not realize it consciously, but negative feelings can be as toxic as physical poisons, wearing on us and causing depression, illness, and burnout. But how can we keep ourselves safe in a world too often ruled by resentment, jealousy, rage, and stress?
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Power of words….
- By Javonna Sheree Blanton on 09-29-24
By: Sandra Ingerman
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Ready, Set, Slow
- How to Improve Your Energy, Health, and Relationships Through the Power of Slow
- By: Lee Holden
- Narrated by: Lee Holden
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
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Internationally celebrated Qi Gong master Lee Holden shares a transformative journey filled with wisdom on the power of slowing down for spiritual balance and peace amid modern chaos—with tools like primal shaking for stress relief, vagal breathing and optimal digestion acupressure for the body, conscious communication for relationships, and more.
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The profound made simple
- By Jennifer on 01-27-25
By: Lee Holden
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How to Raise Successful People
- Simple Lessons for Radical Results
- By: Esther Wojcicki
- Narrated by: Andrea Gallo
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
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The godmother of Silicon Valley, legendary teacher, and mother of a super family shares her tried-and-tested methods for raising happy, healthy, successful children using trust, respect, independence, collaboration, and kindness: TRICK. How to Raise Successful People offers essential lessons for raising, educating, and managing people to their highest potential. Change your parenting, change the world.
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Rushed, no depth, very disappointed
- By Bobby Canedy on 05-16-19
By: Esther Wojcicki
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Why Marriages Succeed or Fail
- And How You Can Make Yours Last
- By: John M. Gottman
- Narrated by: Paul Costanzo
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
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Psychologist John Gottman has spent twenty years studying what makes a marriage last. Now you can use his tested methods to evaluate, strengthen, and maintain your own long-term relationship. This breakthrough book guides you through a series of self-tests designed to help you determine what kind of marriage you have, where your strengths and weaknesses are, and what specific actions you can take to help your marriage.
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Insightful and Easily Understood
- By Diane on 06-19-12
By: John M. Gottman
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The Gift of Forgiveness
- Inspiring Stories from Those Who Have Overcome the Unforgivable
- By: Katherine Schwarzenegger Pratt
- Narrated by: Katherine Schwarzenegger Pratt
- Length: 4 hrs and 37 mins
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Written with grace and understanding and based on more than 20 in-depth interviews and stories as well as personal reflections from Schwarzenegger Pratt herself, The Gift of Forgiveness is about one of the most difficult challenges in life - learning to forgive. Here, Katherine Schwarzenegger Pratt shows us what we can learn from those who have struggled with forgiveness, some still struggling, and others who have been able to forgive what might seem truly unforgivable.
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I stopped 2 hours in..
- By Alex C. on 03-13-20
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Finish
- Give Yourself the Gift of Done
- By: Jon Acuff
- Narrated by: Jon Acuff
- Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins
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Acuff knows the reason why many writers' novels go unfinished - it's the same reason why gyms are filled in the first week of January and empty by the end of the month and why people stop learning a new language once they get past the easy parts. It's not just that people lose momentum or get distracted. People give up on projects when they fail to live up to their own high expectations and decide that if they can't do something perfectly, they won't do it at all. If you're going to finish, you have to kill perfectionism.
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I couldn't finish it!
- By Bashar on 10-27-17
By: Jon Acuff
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Unlimited Memory
- How to Use Advanced Learning Strategies to Learn Faster, Remember More and Be More Productive
- By: Kevin Horsley
- Narrated by: Dan Culhane
- Length: 2 hrs and 28 mins
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Do you ever feel like you're too busy, too stressed, or just too distracted to concentrate and get work done? In Unlimited Memory you'll learn how the world's best memory masters get themselves to concentrate at will, anytime they want. When you can easily focus and concentrate on the task at hand and store and recall useful information, you can easily double your productivity and eliminate wasted time, stress, and mistakes at work. In this book you'll find all the tools, strategies, and techniques you need to improve your memory.
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I don't get it
- By asher on 01-02-17
By: Kevin Horsley
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The More of Less
- By: Joshua Becker
- Narrated by: Joshua Becker
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
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Most of us know we own too much stuff. We feel the weight and burden of our clutter, and we tire of cleaning and managing and organizing. While excess consumption leads to bigger houses, faster cars, fancier technology, and cluttered homes, it never brings happiness. Rather, it results in a desire for more. It redirects our greatest passions to things that can never fulfill, and it distracts us from the very lives we wish we were living. But it doesn't have to be this way.
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Need a strong stomach for Christian faith to get through this one
- By Kate Lockhart on 12-29-16
By: Joshua Becker
Wonderful
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Excelente libro, me encantó y ayudó muchísimo. Abrió mis horizontes en un tema tan difícil que por lo demás esta muy bien explicado. Lo recomiendo a todo ser humano.
Siento que he crecido con este aporte y trataré de guiar a mi familia y a mí con todo lo aprendido. Gracias!
Amazing
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very good descriptive book with clear guidance
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What did you like best about The Optimistic Child? What did you like least?
There is plenty of good messaging, content and story telling in this book, but at times the audio narrations is hard to follow. Often it sounds like the narrator is translating a table of result data that is hard to follow and its unclear sometimes when the reader is moving into a new section of a chapter or reading actual content. Overall, the content is worthwhile but ultimately I would have been better off reading it myself. I feel now that I need to also buy the paperback.Did the narration match the pace of the story?
Narration was difficult to follow at times.Better off getting paperback
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amazing book
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Important but painful
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Disappointed
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