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What You Can Change and What You Can't
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Last discussed Oct 24, 2026
Martin Seligman's book on which psychological traits and conditions are malleable through therapy and drugs and which are not.
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Martin Seligman · Oct 24, 2026
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Chris Williamson
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Used for: Understanding predisposition and heritability and deciding where to focus effort
Praised: Helps answer how much to try and which areas to focus on given predispositions
vs: Preferred over the Agency book; connected to Robert Plomin's behavioral genet...
"Well, my favorite book of yours is What You Can Change and What You Can't... the agency book's great, but What You Can Change and What You Can't for me was just so, even if it is one of your more niche books, it was wonderful. Like really, really ..."
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Martin Seligman
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Praised: Findings have remained valid for about 25 years
"What I said in the book What You Can Change and What You Can't, that's pretty much remained the same. So, 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..."
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