【哈佛积极心理学笔记】第5讲 环境的力量

第5讲 环境的力量

dissemination 传播

To be a practical idealist:
Premise 5: happiness is important, it also ought to be important.

Aristotle’s law of identity, A is A.

Negative emotion: -> narrow & constricts -> sad -> n&c
Positive emotion: -> broaden & build -> +emo

creativity: think more broadly, make more connnection

very often manic depressives are highly creative, but that’s usually during their manic phases, in the depressive phase, our thinking is narrow, we don’t think outside the box usually.

“No pain, no gain.” wrong
When you feeling good, you have more motivation, you have more energy.

Selfishness and immorality have essentially become synonymous.
That’s a problem. This is the No.1 cause of unhappiness. Because people feel guilty about pursuing their own happiness. People feel guilty at times feeling good about themselves.

Happiness is a positive-sum game. It’s not a zero-sum game. It is a negative sum game.
Happiness is contagious. If I am happier, I am more likely to contribute to other people’s happiness and well-being.
Being happy in other words, is also a moral state in the sense of contributing to other people’s well-being.

vicissitudes of life 人生沉浮

In other words, working on our happiness, contributing to our well-being, leads us to be also more generous and bennevolent towards others.

Helping others also help ourselves, and helping ourselves in turn helps others.

I know of no more selfish act than a benevolent act.

If we don’t appreciate that part of our nature, that part of nature will depreciate.

Be the change you want to see in the world. This is how you bring about change.
People mostly do what you do, rather than what you say.

1. 随心而行，尊重事实
2. 相信改变时可能的
3. 幸福和外在因素无关
4. 顺从人性，接纳不完美
5. 快乐是道德的，是正和博弈

Beliefs are self-fullinng prophecies

ignite 激发 defied 质疑

creating our reality throught our thoughts
bridge ivory tower in main street

The buddha, “We are what we think. All that we are arise with our thoughts, we make our world.”

Pygmalion effect (): how people can be changed, can be transformed.

detached 脱离的

We create our reality.

Goethe: “Treat a man as he is and will remain as he is, treat a man as he can and should be, he shall become he can and should be”

The power of situation, obedience to authority.

mind-bogglinng stuff 大跌眼镜