【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 our resiliency in the face of challenge, your sense of humor? whatever it is, instead of deleting you, what i want to do is study you. because maybe we can glean information not just how to move people up to the average, but how we can move the entire average up in our panies and schools worldwide.
　　the reason this graph is important to me is, when i turn on the news, it seems like the majority of the information is not positive, in fact itamp。39。s negative. most of itamp。39。s about murder, corruption, diseases, natural disasters. and very quickly, my brain starts to think thatamp。39。s the accurate ratio of negative to positive in the world. what thatamp。39。s doing is creating something called the medical school syndrome which, if you know people whoamp。39。ve been to medical school, during the first year of medical training, as you read through a list of all the symptoms and diseases that could happen, suddenly you realize you have all of them.
　　i have a brother inlaw named bobo which is a whole other story. bobo married amy the unicorn. bobo called me on the phone from yale medical school, and bobo said, amp。quot。shawn, i have leprosy.amp。quot。 (laughter) which, even at yale, is extraordinarily rare. but i had no idea how to console poor bobo because he had just gotten over an entire week of menopause.
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　　see what weamp。39。re finding is itamp。39。s not necessarily the reality that shapes us, but the lens through which your brain views the world that shapes your reality. and if we can change the lens, not only can we change your happiness, we can change every single educational and business oute at the same time.
　　when i applied to harvard, i applied on a dare. i didnamp。39。t expect to get in, and my family had no money for college. when i got a military scholarship two weeks later, they allowed me to go. suddenly, something that wasnamp。39。t even a possibility became a reality. when i went there, i assumed everyone else would see it as a privilege as well, that theyamp。39。d be excited to be there. even if youamp。39。re in a classroom full of people smarter than you, youamp。39。d be happy just to be in that classroom, which is what i felt. but what i found there is, while some people experience that, when i graduated after my four years and then spent the next eight years living in the dorms with the students harvard asked me to。 i wasnamp。39。t that guy. (laughter) i was an officer of harvard to counsel students through the difficult four years. and what i found in my research and my teaching is that these students, no matter how happy they were with their original success of getting into the school, two weeks later their brains were focused, not on the privilege of being there, nor on their philosophy or their physics. their brain was focused on the petition, the workload, the hassles, the stresses, the plaints.
　　when i first went in there, i walked into the freshmen dining hall, which is where my friends from waco, texas, which is where i grew up i know some of you have heard of it. when theyamp。39。d e to visit me, theyamp。39。d look around, theyamp。39。d say, amp。quot。this freshman dining hall loo