You go into flow when your highest strengths are deployed to meet the highest challenges that come your way.

When we take time to notice the things that go right - it means we're getting a lot of little rewards throughout the day.

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

The clearer the rules and the limits enforced by parents, the higher the child's self-esteem. The more freedom the child had, the lower his self-esteem.

I believe that traditional wisdom is incomplete. A composer can have all the talent of Mozart and a passionate desire to succeed, but if he believes he cannot compose music, he will come to nothing. He will not try hard enough. He will give up too soon when the elusive right melody takes too long to materialize.

The pleasant life: a life that successfully pursues the positive emotions about the present, past, and future.

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