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Create flyerBreaking Murphy's Law
How Optimists Get What They Want from Life - and Pessimists Can Too
Suzanne C. Segerstrom
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orderSeptember 1, 2007
ISBN 9781593855925
Price: $14.95232 Pages
Size: 5½" x 8½"
Copyright Date: 2006
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Prologue: Stop Trying to Be So Happy
1. Glass Half Full, Glass Half Empty, or Glass That Needs to Be Washed?: The Optimistic Character
2. The Persistence Instinct: Optimists and Their Goals
3. Building (and Rebuilding) for the Future: Optimists and Their Resources
4. So Happy Together: Optimists and Their Relationships
5. Mixed Blessing: Optimists and Their Health
6. Everything Good, Especially the Bad: Optimists and Their Vulnerabilities
7. Is an Optimist Born or Made?: The Optimistic Character Revisited
8. Doing Optimism: Optimists, Pessimists, and Their Potential for Change
Epilogue: Confessions of a Reluctant Optimist
