In his latest user-friendly road map for human emotion, the author of
the bestselling Learned Optimism proposes ratcheting the field of
psychology to a new level. "Relieving the states that make life
miserable... has made building the states that make life worth living
less of a priority. The time has finally arrived for a science that
seeks to understand positive emotion, build strength and virtue, and
provide guideposts for finding what Aristotle called the `good life,' "
writes Seligman.