【正文】 ll 39。s something really terrible going on?” I mean, why would they call me midnight to the hospitalBeth Israel, insisting on just one specific hospital? There must be something really my mind begins to I say, “what if I only have a year left? What would I do in that year?” I bee very sad because I think I won39。t take me to the hospital because David, at that time one year old, is don39。s the the doctor says to Tommy, ”the test results just came Tal should get to the hospital now.“ She said to the doctor, ”He just fell hasn39。t fall was in real went to the was on Friday afternoon, just saying ”you know I have to medication I took didn39。ll talk more about that the class is for who39。ll get manywe39。m glad you are a couple of that I received via few things before we jump into the of all, I was asked,‖ who is this class for? Is it for peopleyou know it39。d like to learn things that they can tell the roommates so clearly that(?) it turns out actually over a third of people who took this class last year took the class because they felt they were trying to learn about the research about positive another third because they wanted to learn about third did it for pletely different third this year did it because Tal was on the Jon Stewart Daily am absolutely thrilled about this syllabus which Tal is about to tell you about is..Actually we learned a couple of other things about you you know that of people who take positive psychology, 75% of you are officers of club, 35% of you are the highest ranking officers of club, which means that you think there are about 2000 clubs at Harvard, you are in club of three, and you happen to be the learned other reasons why you are not learned that the average number of romantic relationships for people to take positive psychology in 4 years is between zero and and one.(Tal: No!I don39。ll encounter in this class are very simple, very they are simple, not here is the0us to share this moment with I39。s fun to study it hurts and sometimes we see things that we may not like, but overall it39。ll do that or rather you39。s why we39。s not is important to also study ourselves, because when we see our deep nature, what we encounter there is part of the universal nature, the similarities among us all, regardless of where we are this was what Dalai Lama was talking about: not stop at the same time, not ignore the ignore the universal within each one of , “There is one thing and only one in the whole universe which we know about that we could learn from external one thing is have, so to speak, inside information。s about studying as Carl Rogers says, ”What is most personal is most general.“What is most personal is most general.” And as Maslow adds, “We must remember that knowledge of one39。ll have to write outa presentation about your favorite topic or the topic that matters most to you。s through response papers that will be due weekly starting in 2 weeks。ll study are going to go that why? When I put this class together, I didn39。s not my training and people who are focusing on cultural differences will do a much better job than I do。s wrong, Dalai Lama said that he was not fortable with talking and emphasizing so much cultural can say many things about Dalai thing you cannot say about him is that he39。t it?That was good for about 10 seconds before it snapped out of that cheap little staple they put it in there go to your first house: ”Trick or...“ Snap!” It don39。m not a think they are...To some questions definitive answers that are important to , what I39。ll talk about it already next importance of the questions you ask of yourselves first and foremost, of your partner, of your students, of your parents, of your employees in the future, teammates and so make a Drucker, ―The most mon source of mistakes in management decisions Peter Drucker, considered the most important management scholar of 20th century, just recently passed away, saying the biggest mistake is not asking the right we39。s just not need more than class will take a humanistic me read you a quick excerpt by Abraham Maslow who talks about this approach, ”If one took a course or picked up a book on the psychology of learning, most of it, in my opinion, would be beside the pointimportance of idealism and maintaining idealism if we are to introduce personal change, interpersonal change, or munity or society class is not about providing answers, concerning the good life and is about identifying the right questions.“Ask and ye shall you receive”, say the class is what I think education is all about, which is that the quest for information and transformation must begin with the , question, there is no coincidence that there is an etymological link between the this class we39。s not enough and what we need in addition to our information highway is a transformation high way, or transformation back roads, to e through the fast increasing as we39。s constant reminder, twice a reminder of what you already know, of what is inside David that is inside what this class will hopefully do is to help you chip away some of these limitations, whether it39。t think—I am not expecting you to e and tell me, ”Wow!Thank you for teaching me so many new things.“ That39。ll talk about next 39。s the analysis? What39。ll be talking probably more than any other scholar about her work in this another person from Harvard, one of the parents of positive psychology was Philip Stone, who passed away two years ago, Langer and Stone were my physicist advisors, introduced me to the field of positive psychology into this 1998 when I had the first positive psychology summit, Professor Stone took me along with was a graduate 1999 he taught the first positive psychology class at Harvard, one of the first in the was his teaching couple of years later, he taught it I was his teaching then when I graduated, he suggested I take over his here we are this is me give you a sense of, in the next half an hour and so, a sense of what you expect