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Pelin Randall
THP: Trio
Homework 1: Dr. Tal Lecture 1

Happiness-Positive Psychology 1st

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8qpn6kNfPc

** “People always look at the messenger, not the message”

Thank you, Dr. Tal reminded me about it, so now a right messenger is here, is Elle! At least she is taller than I am.

** “Over promising and under-delivering”

Secret is great, I learn a lot from it. But Dr. Tal concern of there is a very big “but” here, Over promising and under-delivering.

** “Create a bridge between Ivory Tower and Main Street” from the academic and applied it. But then still have many of us feel difficulty to go through it. My very big goal is “How to create a bridge between Main Street and Supermarket, even Free Market?”

** “Time-Ins is time to look inside” a time of silence.

Silence gives us a chance to reflect on what we have said and heard. Time-ins can train us more prudence, do not say or do things that you might later regret.

** “Information is taking all knowledge and putting it inside to our mind, transformation is change our mind to interpretation, to perception and to focus. Same objective information but very different interpretation, one is disaster, leads to losing our energy; the other one is an opportunity, leads to increasing our energy.”

Thank you Dr. Tal let us know that when we are receiving a bad news, we can cool down and transformed it, from disaster transform to an opportunity.

** “People who have everything appreciate it and enjoy life. Then, people who have very little and who see themselves as victim. Happiness is contingent on our state of mind than our status of the state of our bank account.”

More grateful what we have, more appreciate what we state.

** “Chip away the excess stone, after that, there was David” But "Not obviously easier said than done"

After we applied to our life, we found out chip away or remove out our bad ritual is not easy. It is not just think and say, our old ritual will automatically become to a new and good ritual. It won’t, unless we really do for it.

** Simplify! "Soul grows more by subtraction than by addition" “Less rather than

More” “Quantity effect Quality”.

Lecture - What is Positive Psychology? This class reminded us what is inside you, the David that is inside you. Who know themselves, who study themselves, who are self–reflective. I think to know yourself more earlier is most important than any other things. We expect be happier and wellbeing, learn those wisdoms before we step out.

** "in pursuit of knowledge every day, something is acquired, in pursuit of wisdom,

everyday something is dropped"

knowledge is about information; wisdom is about transformation. In pursuit of wisdom, every day something is dropped. Ourselves nature what we encounter, there is part of Universal nature. I spent a lot of time to understand it. If we excuse that we are too busy so we have not enough time to study, then we are always stay at the busy state because that is what we want. Create more time to discover our own wisdom, they are come from the universal nature.

** “Common sense is not that common” especially applies to application, so should make Common sense more common. External refers to information; internal refers to the transformation.

Thank you Dr. Tal to let me understand, common sense just like the children in the bus but we ignore them. Most of us too much focus on something we don’t have, forget to count how many that we have.

** “Questions create reality; question makes it different.”

The biggest mistake is not asking the right question, then the wrong question will bring us to the wrong place, even the answer is right, it’s no matter and it’s no use. Same as Dr.Tal’s hopes, I hope in our group is to bring up many more questions marks than periods.

** "belief in self-fulfilling prophecies", always asked questions, curiosity, life-long learner, always wanting to understand the world the more. Those things can help us to be the extraordinarily successful, not just successful. I learned this word "belief in self-fulfilling prophecies" mean is we committed and responds whatever we said, once we said it, we make it.

** “How can I take these ideas and apply them to my life? We can't determine whether or not “I am happy”, only “How can I become happier?” Affect and Cognition is not enough; Behavior has to be there as well. Dr. Tal’s 23 classes are connected to every class throughout the semester around spiral。