Wednesday, May 26, 2010

positive psychology

Just reading a book on positive psychology by Jeana L. Magyar-Moe, Jeana Magyar-Moe.They say that we focus on our weakness and think that our strengths will take care of themselves.How true, instead of focusing and nurturing our strengths we focus on our weakness trying to improve it and in the process we forget about our strengths.Now when I think I feel it is true in every area of life - looks, for ex, we are so obsessed with fair complexion,always trying to get a fair skin that we ignore our other good features like beautiful eyes or hair instead of taking care of it we brood over complexion.Similarly we try to fix our wt ignoring our good facial features or skin.similarly in studies we focus on the subject in which we r weak we take tution on that subject,spend 1 hr more on that subject apart from tution and we don't get the time to nurture the subject in which we r good.Positive psychology says do the opposite- focus on your positives and manage the weakness.Nurture,strengthen your basics in the subject you are good and manage the subject in which you are weak.