Harvard Open Course: Positive Psychology Lecture 8 Note

News gives us too much negative information so that it creates a negative feedback loop. There is a lot of good in this world. We should also focus on the good.

“Nothing is good or bad but thinking makes it so.”  William Shakespeare

 

Studies showed only positive feelings predicted longevity.

 

Try it

1. Becoming a merit-finder

2. 21 days or your money back

3. Visualize it, feel it

4. Chipping away negativity

5. Thanks for reminding me…

 

 

Harvard Open Course: Positive Psychology Lecture 7 Note

To become more of an optimist:
1. Just do it. Take action.

2. Imagination. Visualization.
    Not only imagine the outcome but also the details and processes.
    Brain doesn't know difference between real things and imaginary things.
    Moreover, brain doesn't like inconsistence.
    So brain will make imagination come true.
    The key point is to detail imagination.

    Prepare, prepare, prepare, and be spontaneous.

3. Cognitive Therapy.
    Event => Evaluation => Emotion
                    (thoguht)
    Change the way you interpret events. You, then, change how you feel about the event.

Another topic: Focus

Be a benefit-finder. Do not focus on negative. Too optimistic is not good as well.
In practice, get yourself close to reality (event) and interpret the reality (event) positively.
Find benefit from the reality. You, then, live happier and positively.

Harvard Open Course: Positive Psychology Lecture 6 Note

Power of the situation: Let yourself be in a positive condition.
Put those things which make you happy around you.

Self-fulfilling prophecy: you are what you think you are. (Placebo effect is one example.)
But it is not enough. Optomism should come with passion and hard work.

I am a great believer in luck, and I find that the harder I work, the luckier I get. Thomas Jefferson
There is no substitude for hard work. Thomas Edison
Learn to fail, or fail to learn.

To increase level of happiness, the basline of which has been determined after birth, facing and coping the problem is the only way.

Harvard Open Course: Positive psychology Lecture 4 & 5 Note

Continue talking premises mentioned in Lecture 3.

Personal change is possible. How about socielty?

All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one.
The power of one. Human networks as exponential. (You can also change the world. Or you change can make this world different.)

Premise 3
Internal factors primary determins happiness VS. Happiness is primarily a function of external circumstance.

Previous study ponited out happiness levels are not determined by income (but has to up to certain level. However, not a high level), generations, and place of residence. It is determined by state of mind.

Premise 4
Human nature must be obeyed VS. Human nature must be perfected.

"Human nature must be obeyed" means people need regulations to constrain their behaviors.
"Human nature must be perfected" means people can find their own way to perfect themselves. (Idealist?)

Vision of psychology:
Human nature immutable
Role is to understand nature and make best use of it.

So do not try to be perfect. Allow yourself to be human. Accept yourself. Rejecting nature leads to unhappiness. Accetance means to understand your characterisitics, emotion, ability, and reality. Interpret and handle them in the best way.

Premise 5
Happiness is and ought to be our ultimate end VS. Happiness should be a secondary pursuit.

Some people feel guilty when they feel good because other people may suffer now.
It is OK. Spread out happiness. Happiness is a positive sum game.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the lift of the candle will not be shorten. Happiness never decreses by being shared.....Buddha.

Helping ourselves and helping others
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Another topic

Belief creates reality.
How people treat you can change you, and also how you think about yourself matters.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make our world.....Buddha.

Positive priming: pictures, pleasant objects, and quotes.

Marc Chagall 夏卡爾

最近蘇黎世美術館一直在打夏卡爾特展的廣告.因為就在我家隔壁,沒理由不去.話說會知道夏卡爾這個畫家是因為蘇黎世的聖母教堂內,櫥窗就是他設計的.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Fraum%C3%BCnster_-_Chagallfenster_2010-08-27_17-03-56_ShiftN.jpg/1280px-Fraum%C3%BCnster_-_Chagallfenster_2010-08-27_17-03-56_ShiftN.jpg

後來跟一個朋友提及,她說夏卡爾最有名的畫就是底下這幅.不太知道為什麼稱為Birthday?

Birthday

後來到處去晃晃的時候,有時候都會看到夏卡爾的作品.(是個多產的藝術家,然後活了快一百歲.)
之後就越來越喜歡夏卡爾.(實在是太有特色....)

他的作品有時很溫馨,有時很陰鬱..非常多變.都是走超現實奇幻風格....但是又不會奇幻到看不出他畫作裡面蘊含的情感....簡單易懂的奇幻風..怎麼這種風格沒有被繼承下來呢?

The village and I

之前在尼斯的時候參觀過夏卡爾美術館,當中有夏卡爾為聖經的故事所畫的n幅巨型畫作(是猶太人的聖經,夏卡爾是猶太人.),也是很令人讚賞....(請參照尼斯的相簿)

用今天看到很喜歡的一幅作為結尾...(其實喜歡很多,只是就找不到這一幅明信片..應該有吧,為什麼沒看到呢?)

Paris Through My Window

星巴克城市杯 & 明信片



之前塊陶阿的戰利品都是星巴克的城市杯居多,導致我家的馬克杯超多....
早上起床就隨手拿個兩個,一個泡麥片,一個泡咖啡.挺方便的.

還不用馬上洗...反正一直都有杯子可以用...
(好像還有馬德里的在辦公室?)

後來真的買太多了...就開始買明信片跟寫明信片.

也沒過多久.就收集這麼多了.

有些是意想不到的時候收到的明信片!還蠻有趣的..

然後剛剛去看夏卡爾的展覽.買了四張.有三張實在是太喜歡了.
決定自己留著收藏.

繼續收集!

[研究] 好運氣

之前有一個想法,似乎在某些動物上得到了驗證.可是沒有任何研究指出在人類是有一樣的效應.

然後我閒著也是閒著,就開始驗證這個想法(在沒有做任何文獻回顧的狀態之下....).然後得到的結果也是我想要的.

然後老闆說:這麼簡單的實驗很難想像沒人做過.你去查一下好嗎?

然後一查之下!發現果然有人做過...更有趣的是...文獻指出:效應是跟我的實驗結果(也是就我的想法)相反!!

這下子好了....太神奇了....前人(還是我們group的前人...這研究的年代比我還老...)不會亂寫.我也沒理由唬爛阿(我都是盡量客觀的做實驗...而且研究反射行為的話,干預也甚麼用.反射就是反射.給暗示也沒用.)

仔細研究這些文獻...唯一的差異就是他們用的刺激跟我用的刺激不同.一般來說這兩種刺激有相同效應,但是還是有些微的不同.然後這些微的差異竟然導致結果完全不一樣.

在一次仔細的驗證(在自己身上做了很多實驗....),結果真的不同....好棒!!一方面我可以重現前人的實驗,另外一方面我證實了我所用的刺激有不同的效果!

就這樣誤打誤撞做出了一些有價值的東西.還反駁的前人的想法(我最喜歡這種推翻前人想法的研究了(反骨...)).

這一切都要歸功於我懶得查文獻....要是我先知道之前有人做過.我也不知道我會不會繼續做下去....真的是運氣很好....(運氣也是天分的一種(?))

Harvard Open Course: Positive Psychology Lecture 3 Note

Continue to describe positive psychology with a lot of example.

Talk about health model and disease model
Disease model can bring you to zero but not more than that.
Instead, health model not only corrects what is wrong but also builds up what is right.

Five premises (but I don’t know what these are necessary)

1. Bridge building Vs. Division and separation
      
Good intentions are not enough. To see what works is also important.
Being a practical idealist

2. Change is possible Vs. Change is illusive

Growing-Tip Statistics
Study the best and all of people get benefit.

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” Margaret Mead

“All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

3. Internal factors primarily determine happiness Vs. Happiness is primarily a function of external circumstances

4. Human nature must be obeyed Vs. Human nature must be perfected

5. Happiness is and ought to be the ultimate end Vs. Happiness should be a secondary pursuit

Harvard Open Course: Positive Psychology Lecture 1 & 2 Note

講義

http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k14790&pageid=icb.page69146

影片可以去youtube找,網路也很多!

Lecture 1

學習後的沉靜、休息可以使學習的效果更高(回想)

知識(Information)很重要,內化?(transformation)也是.
或者說,如何解讀知識很重要(How to interpret information matters.)

Extraordinary person:

1. really believe in themselves. The sense of confidence.
2. always ask questions. Curiosity. Open mind to receive new.

特別有印象的句子

Soul grows more by subtraction than by addition

Common sense is not that common.

Lecture 2

學習如何處理負面並不能有效的變得更幸福
學習如何變得正面才可以有效的變得更幸福

Resilience matters.

Characteristics of resilience (or to become resilience)
1. Optimism
2. Faith and a sense of meaning
3. Prosocial behavior
4. Focusing on strengths
5. Set goals
6. A role model
7. Social support (the most important)

特別有印象的句子

Appreciation makes good grow.

Questions often create reality
No one is coming.
To build up self-esteem is to have self-responsibility. To have self-responsibility is to realize that no one is coming.