A Course Correction for Positive Psychology: A Review of Martin Seligman’s Latest Book

By Greater Good Science Center | September 15, 2011 |

(Editor’s Note: we are pleased to bring you this arti­cle thanks to our col­lab­o­ra­tion with Greater Good Sci­ence Cen­ter). A Course Cor­rec­tion for Pos­i­tive Psy­chol­o­gy A review of Mar­tin Seligman’s lat­est book, Flour­ish: A Vision­ary New Under­stand­ing of Hap­pi­ness and Well-Being. — By Jill Sut­tie As pres­i­dent of the Amer­i­can Psy­cho­log­i­cal Asso­ci­a­tion in 1998, Mar­tin Selig­man challenged…

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Improving the world, and one’s brain, at the same time

By Alvaro Fernandez | April 20, 2009

My wife and I just came back from an inspir­ing Gold­man Prize Award cer­e­mo­ny, where sev­en grass­roots envi­ron­men­tal change­mak­ers were rec­og­nized for their work and resilien­cy, and shared their pas­sion and pur­pose with every­one attend­ing the event. We did hear too from Al Gore, Tra­cy Chap­man, Robert Red­ford, and the founder of the awards 20…

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Learning & The Brain Conference, February 15–17th in San Francisco

By Alvaro Fernandez | February 7, 2007 |

For infor­ma­tion on the 2008 Con­fer­ence, and the dis­count for Sharp­Brains read­ers, vis­it: Learn­ing & The Brain Con­fer­ence: dis­count for Sharp­Brains read­ers. The post below refers to the 2007 Con­fer­ence: ————————- The orga­niz­ers of this amaz­ing con­fer­ence, whose reg­is­tra­tion is about to expire, just extend­ed their very kind offer to Sharp­Brains read­ers: you can register…

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Change or Die: Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain

By Alvaro Fernandez | January 2, 2007 |

We are tempt­ed to drop it all, find a nice warm tree in the park or cof­fee­house table, and sim­ply read 2 books that have just been pub­lished. We haven’t read them since they have lit­er­al­ly just been released today, but we are cer­tain there will be a fun and illu­mi­nat­ing read for any­one inter­est­ed in the…

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2007 New Year Resolution: Carnival of Brain Fitness

By Alvaro Fernandez | January 1, 2007

Hap­py 2007 to every­one! We have just for­mu­lat­ed our New Year Res­o­lu­tion: make 2007 the year when brain plas­tic­i­ty and Brain Fit­ness became main­stream con­cepts. How do we start? well, let’s announce the launch of the Car­ni­val of Brain Fit­ness (a Blog Car­ni­val is basi­cal­ly the vehi­cle that blogs use to share posts around specific…

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