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Authentic Happiness - tutorial notes

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Promoting Positive Learning Environments (6732)

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Authentic Happiness: Positive Emotion Positive Feeling and Positive Character  In 1932, Cecilia O’Payne took her final vows in Milwaukee  Committed the rest of her life to the teaching of young children  Marguerite Donnelly, same year, city and taking the same vows- wrote her autobiographical stetch  These two nuns, along with 178 of their sisters, thereby became subjects in the most remarkable study of happiness and longevity ever done  Sister Cecilia used the words ‘very happy’ and ‘eager joy’, both expressions of effervescent good cheer.  Sister Marguerite’s autobiography, in contrast, contained not even a whisper of positive emotion  Was it really upbeat nature of their sketches that make the differences? Perhaps it was a difference in the degree of unhappiness expressed, or in how much they looked forward to the future, or how devout they were, or how intellectually complex the essay were  Psychology has badly neglected the positive side of life  A stationary colonscope provides a less uncomfortable final minute than what went before, but it does add one extra minute of discomfort  Positive psychology is about the meaning of those happy and unhappy moments, the tapestry they weave, and the strengths and virtues they display that make-up the quality of your life  It is not just positive feelings we want, we want to be entitled to our positive feelings  Positive emotion alienated from the exercise of character leads to emptiness, to inauthenticity, to depression, and, as we age, to the gnawing realization that we are fidgeting until we die  To understand well-being, then, we also need to understand personal strengths and the virtues  When well-being comes from engaging our strengths and virtues our lives are imbued with authenticity  The negative trait of paranoia makes the momentary state of jealousy more likely, just as the positive trait of being humorous makes the state of laughing more likely  Optimism is only one of two dozen strengths that bring about greater well-being  Three criteria for strengths are as follows:  They are valued in almost every culture  They are valued in their own right, not just as a means to other ends  They are malleable  Punctuality is learnable, but, like perfect pitch, it is generally a means to another end (like efficiency) and is not valued in almost every culture  Confucius, Aristotle, Aquinas, the Bushido samurai code, the Bhagavad-Gita, and other venerable traditions disagree on the details, but all of these codes include six core virtues  Wisdom and knowledge  Courage  Love and humanity  Justice  Temperance  Spirituality and transcendence  Each core virtue can be subdivided for the purpose of classification and measurement  Muscle physiology distinguished between tonic activity (the baseline of electrical activity when the muscle is idling) and phasic activity  We need a psychology of rising to the occasion, because that is the missing piece in the jigsaw puzzle of predicting human behaviour  The well-being that using your signature strengths engenders is anchored in authenticity.  Many people who want meaning and purpose in their lives have turned to New Age thinking or have returned to organized religions

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Authentic Happiness - tutorial notes

Course: Promoting Positive Learning Environments (6732)

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Students shared 13 documents in this course

University: University of Canberra

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Authentic Happiness: Positive Emotion
Positive Feeling and Positive Character
In 1932, Cecilia O’Payne took her final vows in Milwaukee
Committed the rest of her life to the teaching of young children
Marguerite Donnelly, same year, city and taking the same vows- wrote her
autobiographical stetch
These two nuns, along with 178 of their sisters, thereby became subjects in the most
remarkable study of happiness and longevity ever done
Sister Cecilia used the words ‘very happy’ and ‘eager joy’, both expressions of
effervescent good cheer.
Sister Marguerite’s autobiography, in contrast, contained not even a whisper of
positive emotion
Was it really upbeat nature of their sketches that make the differences? Perhaps it
was a difference in the degree of unhappiness expressed, or in how much they
looked forward to the future, or how devout they were, or how intellectually
complex the essay were
Psychology has badly neglected the positive side of life
A stationary colonscope provides a less uncomfortable final minute than what went
before, but it does add one extra minute of discomfort
Positive psychology is about the meaning of those happy and unhappy moments, the
tapestry they weave, and the strengths and virtues they display that make-up the
quality of your life
It is not just positive feelings we want, we want to be entitled to our positive feelings
Positive emotion alienated from the exercise of character leads to emptiness, to
inauthenticity, to depression, and, as we age, to the gnawing realization that we are
fidgeting until we die
To understand well-being, then, we also need to understand personal strengths and
the virtues
When well-being comes from engaging our strengths and virtues our lives are
imbued with authenticity
The negative trait of paranoia makes the momentary state of jealousy more likely,
just as the positive trait of being humorous makes the state of laughing more likely
Optimism is only one of two dozen strengths that bring about greater well-being
Three criteria for strengths are as follows:
They are valued in almost every culture
They are valued in their own right, not just as a means to other
ends
They are malleable

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