【正文】 ll spend all the time that I can with my professionally what do I want to acplish in this year? And my immediate response was I want to leave behind a coherent body of work, a coherent course introducing people to positive I arrived at the hospital, I had some more ends up being nothing too put me on within a couple of days I am on the way to want to share with you today though is it the most important thing for me at that time and still today, is to leave behind a coherent body of work about positive psychology, to introduce you to this wonderful field? Why positive psychology? Why is it? Its own field? Why is it notwell, just study happiness, wellbeing as part of social psychology or clinical psychology? Why have so m。t have any future careful up I bee very wistful and then I ask myself,“ Ok so professionally, what would I want to do in that last year?” So I know personally exactly what I39。t see David grow won39。t help myself but think, “what if there39。t want to wake him we get a cab to take me to Beth the wayso this was the year after I was no longer resident tutors in were(?), driving down the Charles and drive and then next to look at look at the beautiful 39。s I get can39。t slept for it wait till tomorrow morning?“And the doctor said,‖ he has to go to Beth Israel, because they have the best labs for what he needs right now.” And she doesn39。t hear am fast wife picks it picks it 39。t help.“ Went to the some blood finally after days I couldn39。s why the one element of pass/fail is not negotiable is that all the response papers have to be the response papers, as you know, are not are basically reflection you reflect about the ideas about things that can be applied to your life? But they are3through the taught the Thursday started 2 years started on I taught on Thursday, pletely lecture I made it through I went to home and I couldn39。s extremely happy and wants to be happier and anyone who39。ll get that element as , if you are thinking about taking positive psychology for personal benefits, you need to put the effort I39。ll talk about numerous studies in every lecture, starting next 39。s perfectly you39。s positive psychologypeople that are very unhappy? Is it only for people who are depressed? Who is this class for?“ Well, the class is for anyone who is interested in Positive psychology and anyone who wants to be you are extremely happy, you can still be you are very unhappy, you can still be the class essentially is for anyone who39。m so glad that you was worried that no one would show up in this 39。t believe it.)Don39。d be taking this class would be taking it because they are already really happy and they want to study about how amazing they they39。m really excited about time we taught this class, we did a survey to find out what type of people were sitting in this roomthey are just like yourselvesand find out why you39。s rigorous, based on many of the ideas that you39。s 39。m sure there are some people here who took the class at the same time is about rigorous ...because it39。ll do that probably more than any other class on this may be news to you, but this is not English 10A or Math 55, meaning you39。t mean we need to throw out the baby with the bath water and stop studying we39。ll do some research or study research as well as do some searchsearching inside are shouldn39。s important to counter it, to add to it, academic work, studying 39。we are in the know.” Now there are of course biases when we study ourselves which is why it39。t you first need to study the other so that you can be more sensitive to others?” Yes, that it39。s own deep nature is also simultaneously knowledge of human nature in general.” When we understand ourselves better, when we identify ourselves, we are better able to identify with fact, this is in many ways the source of empathy, of the healthy there are some studies showing that people who know themselves, who study themselves, who are selfreflective, display less egregious behavior, less immoral behavior toward that would fall under say, it39。ll be talking about how can I apply these ideas to my timeins are about thinking about how can I take in the ideas and use 39。whether it39。t have to give but you39。whether it39。m going to encourage you more than anything to look inside study it39。t think to myself, ”O(jiān)k, so what are the things that I need to introduce in order to please the participants in the class, the students?“That39。ll bee even more particular than just talking about psychology in this part of the 39。and second, because what I hope to look into is the universal, things are mon across we39。s seeming resistance to the notion of cultural I am willing to introduce these ideas but A, because it39。s culturally insensitive, arguably one of the most sensitive people yet he said we are focusing too much on cultural differences and he added not because there are no cultural course there are and they are there are many more similarities than we shouldn39。s on the organizations, on the did extremely within the large group of highly successful Harvard MBAs, he found a small group that was extraordinarily successful, more successful than the rest of group, whether in terms of ine, whether in terms of impact, whether in terms of overall quality of he wanted to identify was whywhat distinguishes this small group from the rest of the pack: very successful, but not quite as successful as that small he found only two was not their IQs that made no difference whatsoever to their longterm was not where they came from, preMBA, what they did had nothing to do with and two things along mattered in terms of determining who will be the extraordinarily successful and the rest: the first thing was the extraordinarily successful groups really believe inevent and it was held in India asked him what39。t believe it!“Wait up you guys!I gotta fix it!Hey wait up!Wait up!” Kids don39。s about chipping away the excess stone because as kids, we are alway