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Positive Psychology – Lecture 4 Hi everybody. We are the Harvard Callbacks We have a special Valentines Day message dedicated from the teaching staff to the students. I will never find another lover sweeter than you, sweeter than you I will never find another lover more precious than you, more precious than you Coz you are Close to me youre like my mother, Close to me youre like my father, Close to me youre like my sister, Close to me youre like my brother You are the only one my everything and for you this song I sing All my life I pray for someone like you I thank God that I, that I finally found you And I pray that you do love me too Pray that you do love me too Happy Valentines Day! Hi, morning. You know, when I asked them to dedicate this song, I had a slightly different song in mind. But-- so be it. We do love you. What we are going to talk about today, continuing from last time is or are the basic premises of this course-- where we are coming from, where we are going-- laying down in many ways, the foundation of the spiral that we are going to create for the next semester together. Last time we stopped, we talked about how difficult change is. We talked about the Twin studies that illustrate that what Lykken and Tellegen said-- maybe changing our happiness level is as difficult as-- and futile-- as trying to change our height. And we talked about the error of the average and the mistake that these researchers are making, misunderstanding the nature of change. Because if someone changes, the question is no longer is it possible to change but rather how is it possible to change. And then we talked about the Somerville Cambridge study that show that literally the Rolls-Royce of interventions failed-- 5 years with the leading scientists, researchers, psychiatrists, psychologists from Cambridge, Harvard and MIT, putting their minds and hearts for good intentions to bring about change-- failure. Not only they have Remember?-- Alcoholism rates went up