exploders,” people who have frequent outbursts of temper, also have more cancer than normal people. - Martin E P Seligman

After the most likely outcome is identified, they develop a plan for coping with the situation, and then practice this skill with both professional examples (a soldier has not returned from a land navigation drill; you received a negative review from a superior) and personal examples (your child is doing poorly at school, and you are not home to help; your spouse is having a hard time managing the finances while you are deployed).

The takeaway lesson from positive psychology is that positive mental health is not just the absence of mental illness.

Depression, I have argued, stems partly from an overcommitment to the self and an undercommitment to the common good.