哈佛公开课《幸福课》04-Focus(精品·公开课件).pptVIP

A Question of Focus;“It appears that the way people perceive the world is much more important to happiness than objective circumstances.” Ed Diener;Two Archetypes;We Co-Create Our Reality;We Co-Create Our Reality;A Matter of Interpretation;A Matter of Interpretation;A Question of Interpretation;The Benefits of Being a Benefit Finder;The Nun Study (Danner et al., 2001);“God started my life off well by bestowing upon me grace of inestimable value... The past year which I spent as a candidate studying at Notre Dame has been a very happy one. Now I look forward with eager joy to receiving the Holy Habit of Our Lady and to a life of union with Love Divine.” Celia O’Payne;The Nun Study (Danner et al., 2001);Get Real!;Get Real!;Get Real!;Appreciating Appreciation;“What you focus on expands, and when you focus on the goodness in your life, you create more of it. Opportunities, relationships, even money flowed my way when I learned to be grateful no matter what happened in my life.” Oprah Winfrey;Correcting the False Schema: News;Correcting the False Schema: Art;Correcting the False Schema: Art;Correcting the False Schema: Art;Correcting the False Schema: Art;Correcting the False Schema: Studies;Adaptation;Must something external and extraordinary happen before we learn to appreciate the ordinary? ;Learning to be Grateful;“Why not start by surveying a typical day? What is it you tend to tackle with spontaneous mindfulness, so that without an effort your whole heart is in it? Maybe it’s that first cup of coffee in the morning, the way it warms you and wakes you up, or taking your dog for a walk, or giving a little child a piggyback ride.... [It is] a matter of practice, of doing it over and over again, till it becomes second nature.” “Gratefulness is the measure of our aliveness. Are we not dead to whatever we take for granted? Surely to be numb is to be dead.”;Research on Gratitude;Try It!;Gratitude to Others (Seligman, 2005);Worst and Happiest