There are physical characteristics which are inherited. These include things like good looks, high intelligence, physical coordination. These attributes contribute to success in life, and success in life is a determinant of optimism.

Life inflicts the same setbacks and tragedies on the optimist as on the pessimist, but the optimist weathers them better.

What determines how much time and deliberate practice a child is willing to devote to achievement? Nothing less than her character.

There are physical characteristics which are inherited. These include things like good looks, high intelligence, physical coordination. These attributes contribute to success in life, and success in life is a determinant of optimism.

The good life is using your signature strengths every day to produce authentic happiness and abundant gratification.

To be a virtuous person is to display, by acts of will, all or at least most of the six ubiquitous virtues: wisdom, courage, humanity, justice, temperance, and transcendence.

By activating an expansive, tolerant, and creative mindset, positive feelings maximize the social, intellectual, and physical benefits that will accrue.