哈佛公开课《幸福课》02-premises讲课.ppt

1504:Basic Premises;The Premises;PREMISE 1:Bridge buildingVS.Division and separation;Bridging Ivory Tower and Main Street;The Need for Practical Idealists;Psychology Can Help;PREMISE 2:Change is possibleVS.Change is illusive;“It may be that trying to be happier is as futile as trying to be taller and is therefore counterproductive.” Lykken and Tellegan (1996);Change is Possible;Growing-Tip Statistics;“If we want to know how fast a human being can run, then it is no use to average out the speed of a ‘good sample’ of the population; it is far better to collect Olympic gold medal winners and see how well they can do. If we want to know the possibilities for spiritual growth, value growth, or moral development in human beings, then I maintain that we can learn most by studying our most moral, ethical, or saintly people. On the whole I think it is fair to say that human history is a record of the ways in which human nature has been sold short. The highest possibilities of human nature have practically always been underrated.... Certainly it seems more and more clear that what we call ‘normal’ in psychology is really a psychopathology of the average, so undramatic and so widely spread that we don’t even notice it ordinarily.”;Growing-Tip Statistics;Studying Our Personal Best;Changing the World?;Measuring Outcome;Is Societal Change Possible?;The Power of One;;;Exponential Growth;We underestimate our capacity to effect change because we underestimate the growth of an exponential function.;;PREMISE 3:Internal factors primarily determine happinessVS.Happiness is primarily a function of external circumstances ;Subjective Well-Being Research;;;Subjective Well-Being Research;Our readiness and potential to experience happiness is mostly dependent on our state of mind, not on our status or the state of our bank account.;PREMISE 4:Human nature must be obeyedVS.Human nature must be perfected;; Constrained Unconstrained Vision Vision;Vision of