“I'm all for past influences; the question is whether they are deterministic. Fre…” — Martin Seligman

Perhaps the single most robust fact across many surveys is that married people are happier than anyone else.

Creativity is bound up in our ability to find new ways around old problems.

If the point of the inner-child movement is to cure adult problems, it doesn't work. Reliving childhood traumas gives you a nice afterglow, but it lasts only for hours or days. There is no evidence it changes adult problems.

The goal of a life free of dysphoria is a snare and a delusion. A better goal is of good commerce with the world. Authentic happiness, astonishingly, can occur even in the presence of authentic sadness.