第三课

1. disease model: you'll be healthy when your disease is cured

    healthy model: you're ill because you are not cultivated with enough healthy staffs

 

2. 2 analogues for positive phychology

    1) a phychological immune system, to low down your possibilities of being ill

    2) a engine, to deal with a steeper slope(depression, anxiety...), need a powerful engine

 

3. 5 premises of this course

   1) bridge buliding between ivroy tower(academia) and main street(society)

    2) change is difficult, but possible

    3) happiness is primarily depend on how we perceive the world(the form of our mind)

    4) we must obey our weakness as well as our potential, virtue

    5) being happier is not the ultimate aim, it is also a moral pursuit

 

     about Bridge

     1. world needs pratical idealist.

     2. with very good intentions, we may hurt more than help, because we dont know the how to give help, we 

        dont apply what we learned. 3 exemples: first, few pople know meditation acually transform our brains, sescond, 

       30 mins a time, 3 times a week, exercises is as powerful as the strongest power medicins, third, get people

       together, make them contact dont make things out, it make it worse. 

     so we need people who do want to make a difference, who do want make the world better, and they are

     phychological positive.

     about Change

     1. change is possible. Although through studies , we've learned that average identical twins behavior almost the

         same way, which means genes count alot, there are some exemples(exceptions) which proved that change is

        possible.

      2. learn from the "best". it is not elitism, it's when we study the best, we know how a person can be,  the potential

         of everybody. everyhbody benefits from the study based on the best.

      3.250 samples with the best resources(interventions), 250 samples not, the result show there is not a significant

         difference. but there are a few, further more, it is a very meaningful attampt in phychological area, this is also the

         what positive phychologist  appeal to do and what they are doing actually.