Martin Seligm Father Of Positive Of Psychology

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Seligman argues that there are five free motivations: positive emotion, engagement, relationships, meaning, and accomplishment (abbreviates as PERMA). Martin Seligman is perhaps best known as a father of positive of psychology — the study of people’s strengths and virtues, rather than on pathological behavior. Happiness is what every individual wants to achieve at the end of the day. And PREMA is used as the key to achieve this success.

This is very much like a cognitive therapy. Encourage positive emotions. Positive emotions build creativity, helps to look beyond horizons, and find alternative solutions. Negative emotions are destructive, and positive emotions can undo every impact a negative emotion had and also remove the emotion fully.

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