If you are familiar with traditional applied psychology, therapy, or counseling, you may be aware of the fact that there are several different protocols, or interventions, which may be employed to reduce the patients' negative symptoms depending upon the presenting problem. Although Freudian psychoanalysis is not generally leveraged or deemed effective these days, many other forms of treatment, such as cognitive behavioral therapy has been shown to be effective at reducing symptoms of mood disorders such as depression or anxiety. However, throughout his practice, Dr. Martin Seligman, former president of the APA, founder of positive psychology, and someone whose research has had tremendous impact on my own life over the past year found that "removing the disabling conditions… is not remotely the same as building the enabling conditions of life. If we want to flourish and if we want to have wellbeing, we must indeed minimize our misery; but in addition, we must have positive emotion, meaning, accomplishment, and positive relationships. [And] the skills and exercises that build these are entirely different from the skills that minimize our suffering." Thus the field of positive psychology, intended to equip people with clinically proven skills to do just that was born. And one seemingly simple intervention which has shown to be incredibly effective at sustainably increasing one's psychological wellbeing is Seligman's What Went Well exercise. Many studies and anecdotes support the idea that in general we spent too much time focused on the negative and what went wrong in comparison with the amount of