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1、It is not peculiarunique to Harvard.teen pregancy 早孕exacerbate paradigm resilience适应能力 emulateunfavorable circumanstance 不利环境Some succeeded big time.非常成功榜样give us sense of directionThey did not bowl alone.独自一人韧性toughness学会识别可以给你提供帮助的人dominant color主色调cross cultureexperience confident拥有driven people奋
2、发向上的人ruminate辗转反侧selfpity自怨自艾selfperception自我认识there is nothing really wrong无可厚非等等 to name several心胸the capability for flowno life is immune to this无法避免identify meaning in life发现in the back of their mind不自觉地me generation以自我为中心accoladesgenerous withtourism school学院美国人均每周四小时志愿时间瑜伽降低犯罪率outlier个例pulish
3、or parish不成功便成仁极端情况对我们的幸福感影响非常小 终身教授 彩票 收入 居住地正确的期望觉得我们的幸福感 不是一味的降低期望 第四前提 对待人性的态度 放任还是引导how spoilt we are受宠若惊准许为人 需要一个空间和人treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is.歌德treat a man as he can and should be.and he shall become as people of the street路人enter the role进入角色eye chart视力表prime影射思想者THINK
4、ER RODINIF one advances confidently in the direction OF his dreams.and endeavors to live the life which HE has imagined，he will meet WITH success，unexpected in common hours 梭罗self help movement think grow rich书this is my callinghe is employing taste运用 tunnel visionrational lightI am glad to be back
5、here; I wish we had a course like this when I was an undergraduate student here. But this does not mean it fits your wish, or, it is right for you. In the next few lectures, I will show you the general ideas of the course and so that you can decide. I started undergraduate study at 1992, on computer
6、 science. I was fine, in academics, athletics (I play velocity squash), and social life. However, I was not happy. Halfway through sophomore, I had a mini-epiphany显现, to know why I was not happy and how to become happy, in a matter of moments, I decided to switch to philosophy and psychology. Since
7、then I have been happier; it should be attributed to a new field, positive psychology. I wanted to share that with others, so, I decided to be a teacher. In this course, psychology1504, we will study the field, positive psychology; and, hopefully, more than a field, ourselves. The first course was i
8、n 2002, it had 8 students, and 2 dropped out later, so, only 6; a year later, it is a little larger, over 300 students; the third year, it had 850 students, the largest course at that time in Harvard, and media began to pay attention, because they wanted to know why it was larger than the introducti
9、on to the economics. I was invited to interviews by media, like newspaper, radio, TV. I noticed a pattern after a dozen of interviews. At the end of interview, they said that they expect I was different. I would ask, nonchalantly, 漠不关心的 how different. They would say, more outgoing, less introvert, m
10、ore extrovert, and less shy. One example is local channel, the interviewer was a joyous guy, he told me he expected me to be different, at the time, my self-esteem is shot, but I still asked him nonchalantly, how different. He replied, “well, I am not sure, but, perhaps, taller”. I was thinking, “5.
11、7, well, 5.6 and half, is not tall enough to teach positive psychology”?The media thought the reason is in the teacher. The teacher must be charismatic, cheerful, and tall. Well, I am Tal (my first name), one “l” missing. But that is the wrong explanation. It is not the messenger, but the message. I
12、n all 200 campuses in U.S., it is one of or the largest courses. Some consulting companies are picking it up, and so are high schools, elementary schools, and the government.Why? Because it really works. Upon this point, the whole realm, love, flourishing, happiness, and wellbeing, are in self-help
13、category. There are a lot of books, and speakers. They are cheerful, outgoing, and tall. But, it is a big but, it lacks substances, over promising and under delivering, such as 5 things for happiness, 3 things for leadership, 1 secret for success, happiness, and perfect love - over promising and und
14、er delivering.How about academia? They are rigor, full of substances, analyzed, re-analyzed, and meta-analyzed. However, they are not accessible. Few people read or refer academic materials. We can ask a question to people, outside the room here of course, how many of you read the last 12 issues of
15、Journal of Personality and Social Psychology? A lot of people do not even know what does that mean. Some researcher estimated that on average only 7 persons read an article in professional journals, and that include that authors mother. That is joking, but I feel hurt, as part of academic. In this c
16、ourse, we merge the two sides, the self-help, new-age movement, and empirical studies. There are two levels, one is like every other course, you read theories, and data, and assignments, and take exams; one is to apply the material to my life, my relationship, my community. Not just interesting, always both rigorous and can be applied.House keepingThis is the last I give le
