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Looking back, he traces his relentless positivity most directly to his athletic career as a nationally ranked squash player...
...have always focused on one thing,” he says, in his velvety Israeli accent. “When I was growing up, it was squash. That’s what I did all the time. I trained from the morning until night. All I could think about was being a professional squash player...
When he arrived at the peaceful grounds of Harvard in 1992, he quickly found himself a champion squash player. But it didn’t take long for him to realize that he couldn’t play sports forever. “I wasn’t depressed,” he recalls. “It was closer to what Thoreau says, that most men live lives of quiet desperation. I was okay, but okay wasn’t enough. It wasn’t enough for squash and it wasn’t enough for my subjective...
From its ashes rose modern Positive Psychology, and by the time Ben-Shahar received his A.B. in 1996, he had decided to shelve his squash racket for good and to devote himself entirely to studying the burgeoning field...
...They found it interesting academically, but they also found that it could help them lead more fulfilling lives.” “Psychology of Leadership” evolved from a seminar Ben-Shahar taught on leadership last year. A veteran of the Israeli army and an intercollegiate squash champion, Ben-Shahar said “Positive Psychology” is the class he would have wanted to take as an undergraduate. “I ask myself in particular what I would have wanted to know, what would have benefited me,” he said...