I had to come. Just for a few seconds to let you know.

We'll find the man who did it.

(Laughter)

I'm here for two reasons.

What'd he say?

But it turned out there wasn't any sexual trauma.

But in the third great arena of life, love, Len is an abysmal failure.

Len is an introvert.

Len is in the bottom five percent of what we call positive affectivities.

In two of the three great arenas of life, by the time Len was 30,

They followed the trial, they read the newspapers, the evidence.

Second, in play he's a national champion bridge player.

You're no fun. You don't have positive emotion. Get lost.

And you can imagine, if you're a writer, that things would get really crowded around deadlines.

Contrary to what psychology told us about the bottom 50 percent of the human race in positive affectivity,

It turned out that Len grew up in Long Island and he played football and watched football, and played bridge

He's not consigned to the hell of unhappiness and that's because Len, like most of you, is enormously capable of flow.

When the first card is played, until 10 days later, the tournament is over, time stops for Len.

And Len was wealthy enough to be able to afford a Park Avenue psychoanalyst, who for five years tried to find the sexual trauma that had somehow locked positive emotion inside of him.

And I have to tell you about my friend, Len, to talk about why positive psychology is more than positive emotion, more than building pleasure.