Um I have this fascinating conversation . His name is Robert Mack and he is an Ivy League educated positive psychology , expert , celebrity happiness coach , executive coach and he's also an author . He's one of the world's leading experts on the relationship between happiness and success .
And then I found ear to and then I found some scientists here and there . And then eventually I was led to positive psychology . But in the beginning , I think it was very simple for me in the sense that I came to a discovery that everything I was doing clearly wasn't working , certainly not in terms of subjective well-being and happiness and peace and all that good stuff .
Just give us a little nutshell for sure . So um apply positive psychology is this study and science of what makes life worth living . So most businesses , usual , usual psychology focuses on mental illness and dysfunction and weakness .
We wanted to make sure we're taking care of those things that are um sort of below um sort of clinical line that are clinical issues . Um Positive psychology really focused on what's right about people and signature strengths , character virtues . It's really about happiness and more than that positive emotion , positive relationships .
It's really about happiness and more than that positive emotion , positive relationships . Um And so , you know , the father of positive psychology , Marty Selman started his career really studying learned helplessness and depression and eventually discovered that you can remove the dysfunction from human beings , but you don't get a thriving individual , you mostly just get a flat lining one . And so he wanted to talk and focus more on what was going right with people and how to leverage and exploit and optimize and maximize the good , good .
