【正文】 terview after interview, literally dozens. 差不多有幾十個采訪。 More outgoing, more cheerful, less introverted, more extroverted. And on and on. 每次都是好交際，更開朗，不含蓄，更外向諸如此類。 But here the best one. 最絕的一次。 So this is one of the local channels here around Boston. I was going to the interview.是波士頓一家地方臺。我去參加采訪。 We had a quite long interview which I thought was actually pretty good. And at the end of the ，我覺得進(jìn)行得很不錯。 采訪結(jié)束。 The interviewer is a very jolly guy. He walks me out and puts his hands on my 。他送我出門，拍著我的肩說。 And says, ”Thank you very much for doing the interview.” And then the usual es. “多謝接受我們采訪。 ” 然后又是那句。 “But you know Tal, I expected you to be different.” “不過 Tal，你跟我想象不太一樣 ”。 And I said, ”How different”. Just so you understand by this time, my selfesteem is short. 我問， “有何不同 ”你要知道那時候，我已經(jīng)完全被打擊了。 But still with some resemblance of nonchalance I asked “How different”. 不過我還是漫不經(jīng)心地問有何不同。 And he looks at me and says: ”Well I don’t know Tal, I expected you to be taller. ”. Taller? What?他看著我說： “我也說不上， Tal，我以為你會更高些 ”。 更高些？什么？ Five seven, well ok five six and a half is not enough to teach happiness? 1 米 70……是 1 米 69 就不夠格傳授快樂嗎？ And I thought about it, I thought about it a lot. The whole pattern from the beginning.我考慮了很久，仔細(xì)思量了。整件事從頭到尾。 And I think I understand why they expected someone different. 我似乎明白為什么他們期望不同了。 You see they had to explain to themselves as well as the audience. 因?yàn)樗麄円f服自己說服觀眾。 How e this lecture is larger than the Introduction to Economics? 這門課怎么會比經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)導(dǎo)論更熱門？ And the way to explain it must be that the teacher is very outgoing, extremely charismatic, very cheerful and extroverted and of course, tall. 唯一的解釋就是導(dǎo)師非常外向、充滿領(lǐng)袖氣質(zhì)、樂觀開朗，當(dāng)然了，還很高。 Well, there is one L missing there, But……. Yeah, if L，但是 ……。嗯 ……真可惜。 So the problem though is that they were looking in the wrong place for the explanation. 所以問題是他們找答案找錯了地方。 In other words, they were looking at the messenger, what they needed to look at was the message. Now how do I know that?也就是說，他們不該關(guān)注信息傳達(dá)者而應(yīng)該關(guān)注信息本身。我怎么知道的呢？ You see because I see other positive psychology classes on other campuses around the country and around the world. 因?yàn)槲覅⑴c過其他大學(xué)積極心理學(xué)課遍及全國乃至全球。 There are over 200 campuses here in United States that teach positive psychology. 美國有超過 200所大學(xué)開設(shè)了本課程。 And almost every campus where this class is taught it’s either one of the or the largest class. It’s about the ，這門課都是參與人數(shù)最多的或者最多的之一。 信息是關(guān)鍵。 I see more and more anizations taking up positive psychology in their as consultant panies. 越來越多的機(jī)構(gòu)組織開設(shè)這門課，還有咨詢公司。 Some of them the leading big consultant panies are taking it on. 其中一些甚至是全球知名咨詢公司。 More and more high schools are introducing positive psychology class.……Elementary schools are introducing ……。 小學(xué)也是。 The governments around the world are expressing interest in this new emerging field. Why? Because it works, because it really 。 為什么？因?yàn)樗行?，因?yàn)樗嬲行А? You see this whole realm of life flourishing on happiness, on wellbeing has been until recently dominated by the selfhealth movements. 殷盛人生，快樂，幸福感這一整個領(lǐng)域在此之前一直被心理自助運(yùn)動統(tǒng)治。 What do we have in the selfhealth movement? We have books that are very interesting that are very ？ 生動有趣通俗易懂的書。 We have speakers who are very outgoing very charismatic and tall attracting the masses into these workshops, seminars and lectures. But, there is a very big “but” 且身材高大吸引大眾參與他們的專題討論講座。 但是，有一個大大的轉(zhuǎn)折。 Many of these books, many of these workshops and seminars lack substance. Very often, overpromising and 。通常都言過其實(shí)無法兌現(xiàn)。 So there are five things you need to know to be happy. The three things to be the great 如，快樂的五個關(guān)鍵。成功領(lǐng)袖的三個要素。 The one secret of success, happiness and a perfect love life. Overpromising, 快樂完美愛情的唯一秘訣?？浯笃湓~，效果甚微。 On the other hand, we have academia. What do we have in the academia? We have a lot of rigor, a lot of 。 學(xué)術(shù)界給我們帶來了什么？ 大量精確的實(shí)質(zhì)內(nèi)容。 We have datas analyzed, reanalyzed and metaanalyzed. Things that actually work, good 據(jù)被一而再再而三得反復(fù)分析。行之有效的好方法。 But, there is also a very big but here. Very few people read refereed academic 個大大的轉(zhuǎn)折。很少有人會閱讀專業(yè)學(xué)術(shù)期刊。 I mean think about it: how many people outside this room of course have read the last twelve issues of the Journal of Personality