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Law Practice

Jul. 29, 2011

Fight job dissatisfaction with a dose of positivity

Feeling an increase in job dissatisfaction? Here's a new way to escape the gloom.

Timothy A. Tosta

Arent Fox LLP

Email: tim.tosta@arentfox.com


In his 2002 book, "Authentic Happiness," Martin Seligman, the "father" of the positive psychology movement, observed: "In a recent poll, 52 percent of practicing lawyers described themselves as dissatisfied... In addition to being disenchanted, lawyers are in remarkably poor mental health." We don't know that much is changed in the ensuing decade with respect to either satisfaction or mental health. But, Barbara Fredrickson, a disti...

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