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.