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The capacity to experience positive emotions remains a largely untapped human strength. The possible benefits of positive emotions seem particularly undervalued in cultures like ours that endorse the Protestant ethic, which casts hard work and self-discipline as virtues and leisure and pleasures as sinful. Departing from this ethic, I will argue that the best solutions to problems stemming from negative emotions are ones that capitalize on positive emotions.
- Cultivating Positive Emotions to Optimize Health and Well-Being, by Barbara L. Fredrickson
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