Lesson objectives Flashcards
Be familiar with positive psychology, its aims, and foundational findings.
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Compare a “worldly pursuit of happiness” and your own “authentic” happiness.
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Assess your own happiness and reflect on those assessments.
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Understand the factors that have been linked to happiness and consider their impact in your own lives.
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Respond to the scores you receive on various happiness measures.
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Understand and remember the five elements of the well-being theory.
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Discover your signature strengths and consider how you can use them more often to achieve authentic happiness.
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Consider utilizing research-based happiness exercises for yourself and others.
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Gain insights about your satisfaction with the past and consider gratitude and forgiveness activities to improve.
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Understand your personal optimism and pessimism and the thinking that can lead to greater levels of optimism.
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Consider savoring, mindfulness, and gratification in the present to enhance your general happiness.
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Deepen your understanding of happiness concepts with the additional examples and insights provided by Lyubomirsky.
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Realize that while your happiness has a basic happiness thermostat that accounts for fifty percent of your positive emotions
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Begin to understand that a full forty percent of your happiness is determined by your intentional activities.
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Discover your preferred happiness activities and consider how to utilize them.
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