哈佛公开课：幸福课第一课英文字幕(5)

Holmes-- this court is attributed to him, not 100% sure it's his-- said, "I would not give a fig for the simplicity on this side of complexity, but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity."What Holmes means here is that he doesn't care about just simplicity, easy, off-the-cuff, whimsical ideas. What he does care about though is the simplicity that comes after. We have chewed the idea, after we have digested it, after we have thought about it. Ideas that have been worked on. And if on the other side of complexity we can read simplicity and common sense, that's great. That's what he's interested in. That is also positive psychology researchers that we'll discuss throughout the semester are interested in. The simplicity on the other side of complexity. And there is a very big difference between these two simplicities, even though on the face of it, they may at times look similar. What this class requires is a very different kind of effort. A very different kind of effort to other class. Again it doesn't require the effort that you'll need in 55 or in English 10A. The kind of effort that it does require is the effort of application, of applying into your life, of introducing behavioral actual change to your life. And before we go into some of the technicalities of the class such as the syllabus, I want to end with a story about Peter Drucker. Peter Drucker, who I quoted earlier, father of study of management in modern times. Peter Drucker lived to the grand old age of 94, passed away just a couple of years ago. Toward the end of his life while he was still 100% lucid, it was more difficult for him to be mobile and to go into organizations. So what he did was invite people who wanted consulting from him, wanted to learn from him to come to his home. And he had Presidents, Premier Ministers of countries.He had CEOs of Fortune 500 companies coming spend the weekend with him. And on Friday, this was how we started with every session, with every world leader, whether in business, whether in non-for-profit, whether in politics. He would say to them the following, "on Monday I don't want you to call me up and tell me how wonderful it was, "-- meaning how wonderful the weekend was, "on Monday I want you to call me up and tell me what you are doing differently." At the end of the semester or at the end of the lecture, if you enjoyed it, by all means tell me that you enjoyed it, that you had fun. But more important, it is what you are doing differently, how this has an impact on your life and that takes effort. We are going to spend a whole week talking just about change, nothing directly related to positive psychology.Just about change. Because it is so difficult to change. Because we know most organizational change fails, because we know more individual change fails. Unless we introduce behavioral change along with our cognitive and emotional change. Affect and cognition is not enough; behavior has to be there as well. What you are doing differently. To do things differently very often takes courage.Some of your response papers that you'll hand in-- none of them are graded; they are all just graded "pass/failed"-- you'll have to hand them in and then you'll pass. But some of them may be the most difficult papers that you've written here. For some they'll be the easiest. And things will just flow out. That's about introducing change. That's about reflecting. That's about taking time-in. That's about chipping away the excess stone. And it can only be done through this kind of effort. So if you really want class to make a difference in your life, it's up to you. I'm going to introduce to you the material. I'm going to introduce to you this wonderful new field of positive psychology. what is up to you is to then take it and apply it. I want to talk a little about the syllabus and the requirements. And I'll give you a little time for questions. But before I do that, I would also like to welcome-- I know that some of you are watching this from home, to the extension school students, it's wonderful to have you here. Do come and visit once a while. And you'll be working with obviously part of this class, but also with Deb Levy who is the, they had teaching fellow for the extension school.They had teaching fellow for the FAS class is Sean Achor and I'd like just to invite him for just a few words, just to introduce himself to you. And you'll be introduced to other TFs we have. We have an amazing team this year. This is Sean. Sean:Hey good morning. Can you guys hear me? Can you hear me now? Great. This is absolutely honored to be back teaching positive psychology again. Tal is too humble. This is not only extraordinary that he is sharing his time with us, but he's actually moved here back, moved his family back from Israel for the entire semester,his wife and his two little children just so he can teach this class with us. And this is absolutely an extraordinary opportunity for us to share this moment with them. And I'm really excited about it. Last time we taught this class, we did a survey to find out what type of people were sitting in this room-- they are just like yourselves-- and find out why you'll be taking this class. Coz the comment that we get so often about this class is why would Harvard students possibly be unhappy? what do they have to be unhappy about? They thought everyone who'd be taking this class would be taking it because they are already really happy and they want to study about how amazing they are. And they'd like to learn things that they can tell the roommates so clearly that (?) themselves. But it turns out actually over a third of people who took this class last year took the class because they felt depressed. And they were trying to learn about the research about positive psychology. And another third because they wanted to learn about optimism. Another third did it for completely different reasons.I th …… 此处隐藏：8263字，全部文档内容请下载后查看。喜欢就下载吧 ……