哈佛公开课《Positive Psychology 1504》学习笔记－ Why Positive Psychology

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本文是关于哈佛公开课《Positive Psychology》的学习笔记，强调关注积极面的重要性。积极心理学不仅涉及如何克服困难，还在于培养个人优势和幸福感，通过提问积极的问题、欣赏美好、采取主动行动来提升生活质量。预防心理问题的最佳方式是培养个人能力，识别和追求生命的意义。

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1 Introduction: Why Positive Psychology

1.1 Why Positive Psychology

1. The importance of focusing onwhat works

If we focus onwhat is working, we'll have more working in our world, more working inourselves, more working in our relationships.

2. Happiness is not the negation ofunhappiness

Being happy is not justthe negation of happiness. It doesn't mean just get rid of depression oranxiety that I am experiencing, I spontaneously become happy.

3. Prevention through cultivatingcapacity

Prevention which isvery important today, the most effective way of preventing hardship, -- whetherit's depression, whether it's anxiety, -- is actually by focusing on andcultivating the positive

1.2 The importance of focusing on what works

1.2.1 Resilience

1.2.1.1 NOTES

4. Optimistic

They wereoptimistic in the sense of thinking, "well, it may not work well thistime. It will work out later. I have learned from what had just happened."

5. Faith and sense of meaning in life

It was doingsomething that they really believed in.

6. Pro-socialbehaviour

And we enter anupward spiral between self-help and other-help. Because when we help others, weare helping ourselves. When we help ourselves, we help others.

7. Focus on strengths

What am I good at? Whatam I really, really good at?

8. Set goals

They werefuture-oriented, not just thinking about how bad things are today perhaps, butalso thinking about "this is where I wanna be 5 years or 10 years fromnow."

9. A Role model

I want to be like her; I want to be like him.

10. Social support

They had socialsupport. They did not say : "well I am tough enough to do it bymyself." Rather they said: "I'm tough enough to reach out forhelp."

The strength toadmit weaknesses as well, the strength to admit a need.

Now theimportant thing about social support is identifying the right people. Peoplewho, when you reach out to them, will reach back to you and will be able togive back.