";s:4:"text";s:4305:" Martin said something like, “Let’s not only look at the negative, let’s also look at the positive outliers.The reason why we want to look at the positive outliers, the people who are the happiest, most successful, is because they represent the potential. The better they got at scanning the world for good things to write down, the more good things they saw even without trying.A good variation of the “three good things” exercise is to maintain a short journal entry about a positive experience. Not only the most negative students have a negative mindset, their academic performance was affected most.In 2006, Dr. Tal Ben-Shahar opened what would become Harvard’s most popular course, The students were highly intelligent and had mastered some of the hardest academic courses, but they hadn’t been thought how to maximize their brain’s potential to find meaning and happiness.Let’s fly very briefly through some very interesting studies. This formula has been thought to most of us by schools, parents, society or companies.
[6]In one surprising study divided experienced doctors into three groups. Grant Study. As I said, studies in psychology and neuroscience have shown that we become more successful when we are happier. Psychologists found that people who watch less TV ironically are more accurate judges of life’s risks and rewards. Wiseman demonstrated this by asking volunteers to read through a newspaper and count how many photos were in it. [1]Another study found that how happy individuals were as college freshmen predicted how high their income was nineteen years later. For Shawn Achor, happiness is the joy we feel striving after our potential. 30/04/2018 21/04/2018 by Karl Niebuhr. That is until Martin Seligman popularized positive psychology. Because on the second page a large message read: “Stop counting, there are 43 photos in this newspaper.” But it gets even better, halfway through the newspaper was another message that read. [8]What this means is that even if our happiness baseline fluctuates around on a daily basis, with a concerted effort we can raise that baseline permanently so that when we are going up and down, we are doing so at a higher level.Neuroscientists have found that monka who spend years meditating actually grow their left prefrontal cortex, the part of the brain most resposible for feeling happy.You don’t need to meditate for years to reap the benefits though, 10 to 20 minutes a day can have a big positive impact.
And you don’t want to dismiss so much research, at least I don’t So write down those “3 good things” that happened today, this will train your brain to scan for the positive.One study found that participants who wrote down three good things each day for just one week, were happier and less depressed at one-month, three-month, and even six-month follow-ups.Even after stopping the exercise, they remained significantly happier and showed higher levels of optimism. If success means happiness, why then are there so many unhappy people which by today’s standard of success, should be happy? They were asked to write down their thoughts in autobiographical journal entries. Optimists cope better in high-stress situations and are able to maintain higher levels of well-being during hardship.
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[10] Find something you can feel positive anticipation for, it is one of the most enjoyable parts of any activity.Long empirical research including one study of over 2000 people has shown that acts of altruism — giving to friends or strangers — leads to enhanced mental health and decreases stress. Actually in psychology for many years attention was paid to the outliers, but to the negative ones.
Let me quote and explain the parts of Shawn’s book I most like.Most people believe that if they are successful, they will eventually become happy. [11]Sonja Lyubomirsky, a leading researcher and author of the book The How of Happiness, has found that individuals told to complete five acts of kindness over the course of a day report feeling much happier than control groups and that the feeling lasts for many subsequent days after the exercise is over.