Agency The Psychological History of Human Progress

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Title: Agency The Psychological History of Human Progress
Author: Martin E. P. Seligman
Category: Philosophy, Psychology, History
Language: English | 400 Pages | ISBN: 9781399843034

Description:
From the world's most influential psychologist and bestselling author of Flourish, a landmark work spanning ancient Greece to the age of AI that identifies agency-the fusion of efficacy, optimism, and imagination-as the hidden engine of human progress, and shows how we can unleash it to build a better future.
What actually drives human progress? Ecologists point to geography and climate. Sociologists invoke wars and class. Economists follow the money. But none of these accounts explains why innovation and human thriving occurs in some eras and stalls in others-often under identical material conditions. The missing variable, Seligman argues, is the psychological state known as: agency.

Agency is built from three interlocking capacities: efficacy, the confidence that you can accomplish a specific goal right now; optimism, the expectation that your efforts will pay off far into the future; and imagination, the breadth of goals you can...

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