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Ideas on the happiness lessons

In the following lessons we offer you some of the rules of happiness.

They have been tested in various situations, by luminaries working with multiple participants.

You can engage with us by asking questions and you can also become a member of our happiness group- (we will create a new one, aside from Happiness is a choice)

In time, under conditions to be established, you can also travel to our city, where you will be able to participate in happiness activities.

Ideas for the lessons or whatever we will call them:

1.       Introduction to the Science of Happiness          

2.       Flow - Peak Experience

3.       Outliers and Finding Your Calling

4.       Blink and the Lightness of Failing

5.       Happiness in Practice with the Project to Spread the Word

6.       Learned Optimism

7.       Eudaimonia, The Rat race and Hedonia

8.       PERMA

9.       Positivity

10.   Optimism and advantages

11.   Learn to fail, or fail to learn

12.   Money and status

13.   Grit and resilience

14.   Stoicism and Happiness

Stories, examples, text to place on the large screen, for the respective lessons:

-          Dalai Lama in a supermarket – his willingness to accept science and change doctrine

-          Buddha and the hot coals, the rival who was angry with him and told to keep it for him as leftovers

-          The rabbi and the farmer

-          Pay it forward, Field of Dreams, You make me want to be a better man,

-          The Chinese who says- we shall see

-          Thomas Mann and the importance of words- Words Create Worlds

-          Italian shop keeper and Mihalyi

-          Stanford Prison experiment, Dr. Philip Zimbardo

-          Learned helplessness

-          Lasagna principle

-          Hamburger model

-           Bhutan experiments with TV and HDP vs GDP

-          Last country in the world to have TV- 1999!!

-          The happiness pie chart

-          Respect for authority research

-          Guyana mass suicide

-          Bystander effect

-          Tipping point and broken windows

Research

-          Ellen Langer and the time travel experiment

-          Harding effect

-          Coolidge effect

-          Pygmalion experiment

-          Duchenne smile

-          Italian American Community

-          Democracy in Swiss cantons and happiness

-          Rosa Luxembourg in jail, Louis Ramirez, Aliosa, Italian homeless and Mihalyi

-          Notre Dame experiment

-          Bhutan TV and ads

-          Priming people with words associated with old age

-          Placing old individuals in plane flying stimulators

-          Facebook research and the effects of staying off it

-          The marshmallow test, delayed gratification

Some ideas to use:

-          Take idea from the titles you have already used, the eudemonia, charlus blog

The Science of Happiness, Lesson 1 Introduction to Happiness

The Science of Happiness, Lesson 1

Introduction to Happiness

On the screen:

-          “Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence”, Aristotle

-          “happiness depends on ourselves”

-          “What is the ultimate purpose of human existence?”

-          We want money, cars, material goods because we think they will make us happy

-          Happiness is that which is always desirable in itself and never for something else

-          The Golden Mean

-          Eudaimonia versus Hedonia

-          Happiness pie chart, with two versions…continued further down

For millennia, thinkers, philosophers and ordinary people have wondered about the meaning of life and happiness. Aristotle came to the remarkable, crucial conclusion that happiness is the purpose of life. America’s founding fathers have enshrined the pursuit of happiness in their constitution, along with other fundamental rights (like perhaps the less inspired one of carrying guns).

Modern science confirms some of the insights of Aristotle, Seneca and other geniuses. What I find extraordinary in today’s world is the ability to find so much evidence that confirms the importance of happiness.

-          Happy people live longer, healthier lives

-          They are more successful in their private and professional lives

-          Extensive research proves how crucial it is to be optimistic, positive

Research and tests include the Duchenne smile vs fake smiles, the Notre Dame nuns and so many other studies that indicate happiness rules and its paramount role.

-          Longevity, smiles and baseball players

-          Smiling players lived longer

The happiest people have been studied and results show that they have a strong social support in common and not money

-          Happiest people and social support

-          Family, friends vs $$

You now have the ability, the instruments, the proofs that rules of happiness work and you only need to apply them…

-          “there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so” – Hamlet

In the following lessons we will get more details on what you can do to achieve not just happiness, but FLOW, peak experiences.

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