20 Weeks To Happiness By Handler Summary

@00082084 The article 20 weeks to happiness by Handler (Handler, 2006) discusses positive psychology and the many views on how people determine what it is and how it is achieved. When first reading this article I found the Victorian moralists’ theory in achieving happiness to be pretty accurate in the sense of not setting your expectations too high and celebrating any positive outcome even if smaller than expected; it was pretty much a basic definition of optimism. Later on, the article discusses Seligman, a man who studied helplessness and how it is a learned trait leading to unhappiness which can also be unlearned and then in turn create happiness. Seligman is basically a man who believes in Gestalts therapy in the sense of not focusing