Harvard Open Course: Positive Psychology Lecture 1 & 2 Note

講義

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

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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.