What You Can Change and What You Can't
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What You Can Change and What You Can't has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including Modern Wisdom. 1 person has made recorded remarks about it.
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Martin SeligmanPsychologist known for learned helplessness research, author of a forthcoming book on agency
Seligman argues it is crucial to know which human problems are malleable so as not to waste effort on unchangeable ones.
“psychotherapy and drugs work decently well on some things and don't work at all on others. And it's very important for people to realize what is malleable”
Modern Wisdom: Positive Psychology Founder: How To Stop Your Negative Thoughts - Martin Seligman - #1167 (Oct 24, 2026) · Listen from 1:18:12
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- Modern Wisdom · 1 episode
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Positive Psychology Founder: How To Stop Your Negative Thoughts - Martin Seligman - #1167Modern Wisdom · Oct 24, 2026 · 1 h 21 min
Chris Williamson talks with psychologist Martin Seligman about learned helplessness, optimism, his new book Agency, AI and creativity, and the Axial Age.