Happiness - Documentary Flashcards
Extrinsic Goals
Money. Fame. Material goods.
Hedonic Tredmill
the supposed tendency of humans to quickly return to a relatively stable level of happiness despite major positive or negative events or life changes.[1] According to this theory, as a person makes more money, expectations and desires rise in tandem, which results in no permanent gain in happiness. Brickman and Campbell coined the term in their essay “Hedonic Relativism and Planning the Good Society” (1971).[2] During the late 1990s, the concept was modified by Michael Eysenck, a British psychologist, to become the current “hedonic treadmill theory” which compares the pursuit of happiness to a person on a treadmill, who has to keep walking just to stay in the same place.
Intrinsic
Goals inwards. Dealing with your life and improving everyday. Becoming yourself.
Karoshi
Working yourself to death. Recorded low levels of happiness in the Japanese.
Picture a man eating sheets of carrots and dying from it.
Flow by
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Me High - chick sent me high
Butan
Butan said GDP is not enough. They have tried to pursue GNH.
What’s natural resources does Butan have to sell.
Hydro electricity. Lumber.
How does the Government of Butan implement GNH
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Co-Housing Communities
Shared chores and obligations for multiple families in Denmark.
What is the Happiest Country on Earth?
Denmark
What is the good idea for a family from Happiness?
Wall mural of children’s art over their lifetime.
What are some benefits of Co-Housing communities?
Shared cooking so that one family cooks once a month.
Shared expertise.
Close connections between children in the communities.
People offering help to others to take them from thinking about themselves to thinking about others.
What country has a disproportionate amount of the worlds oldest people?
Okinawa Japan
What does Monchu mean in Japanese Okinawa?
One family. (Dumping of family ashes into one coffin)
What is Happiness?
Happiness is a mental or emotional state of well-being characterized by positive or pleasant emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy.[1] A variety of biological, psychological, religious, and philosophical approaches have striven to define happiness and identify its sources. Various research groups, including positive psychology, endeavor to apply the scientific method to answer questions about what “happiness” is, and how it might be attained.
It is of such fundamental importance to the human condition that “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” were deemed to be unalienable rights by the United States Declaration of Independence.
The United Nations declared 20 March the International Day of Happiness to recognise the relevance of happiness and wellbeing as universal goals. In 2014 Happy (Pharrell Williams song) became the anthem and inspired clips from around the world.
Namibia
Are most genetically similar to our ancestors? (How do they know this)
They live in grass huts, hunt the land and live in communities.
The entire village participated in the healing process of one sick member.
Compassion and loving kindness meditation Tibetan Buddhist monk?
Sometimes called the “happiest man in the world,” Matthieu Ricard is a Buddhist monk
Chewing a Matt and having a Ricards Red. Picture him doing this will a yellow monks robe with smily faces on it (indicating his title as world happiest man).
How long does it take for compassionate meditation to effect your brain?
2 weeks before it takes effect similar to a drug
Read Montague
Read Montague (born 1960) is an American neuroscientist and popular science author. He is the director of the Human Neuroimaging Lab and Computational Psychiatry Unit at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute in Roanoke, Virginia and is also a professor in the department of physics at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. His work focuses on computational neuroscience - the connection between the physical mechanisms present in real neural tissue and the computational functions that these mechanisms embody. He gave a Ted Talk in 2012 and graduated from The Lovett School in Atlanta, Georgia in 1978.
Who invented or coined the phrase the Hedonic Treadmill?
Brickman and Campbell.
Picture man made of bricks and a can of Campbell’s soup on a treadmill chasing hopelessly after a make women on the end of the treadmill.
