A 70-year-old's secret to a full and happy life
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A 70-year-old's secret to a full and happy life
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#2It's similar to the half glass of water... Do you see the glass half full or half empty?
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#3Dr. Bik Kwoon Tye could be a poster child for Dr. Seligman's work in the field of positive psychology! This story reminds me so much of a book I just finished reading: The Happiness Advantage.
"Conventional wisdom holds that if we work hard we will be more successful, and if we are more successful, then we’ll be happy. If we can just find that great job, win that next promotion, lose those five pounds, happiness will follow. But recent discoveries in the field of positive psychology have shown that this formula is actually backward: Happiness fuels success, not the other way around."
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#4Wow, I went to Cornell and actually remember a professor Tye! It's something we all need to be reminded of — happiness isn't the destination, but rather our mind-frame along the way. It's easy to get trapped in the mundane, daily grind if we forget to keep prioritizing (and re-evaluating) our happiness, especially when it sometimes flies in the face of what's "societally important".
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#5Cool way to use your mom to advertise for your company.
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#6The secret is lie about how happy your life is.
To others to yourself. To everyone.
Re: A 70-year-old's secret to a full and happy life
#7The secret is lie about how happy your life is. To others to yourself. To everyone.
Funny how true this is really.
Can't intentionally smiling release the same chemicals in your brain that are released when you are happy about something in a sort of backwards effect?
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#8This reminds me of the Monty Python skit, "How To Do It". To rid the world of all known diseases, "become a doctor and discover a marvelous cure for something, and then, when the medical world really starts to take notice of you, you can jolly well tell them what to do and make sure they get everything right so there'll never be diseases any more." The secret to a happy life is to be happy now instead of waiting for stuff!
Re: A 70-year-old's secret to a full and happy life
#9The secret is lie about how happy your life is. To others to yourself. To everyone.
Funny how true this is really. Can't intentionally smiling release the same chemicals in your brain that are released when you are happy about something in a sort of backwards effect?
Yes, causality as it is often talked about is a lie or more accurately a deception of the mind a cognitive bias.
Re: A 70-year-old's secret to a full and happy life
#10Dr. Bik Kwoon Tye could be a poster child for Dr. Seligman's work in the field of positive psychology! This story reminds me so much of a book I just finished reading: The Happiness Advantage. "Conventional wisdom holds that if we work hard we will be more successful, and if we are more successful, then we’ll be happy. If we can just find that great job, win that next promotion, lose those five pounds, happiness will…
God I tortured myself growing up thinking that once I achieved the next big goal I would “be happy”. I don’t know why it took me 30+ years to realize that state was never achieved, I just have to be happy now without waiting for it to happen to me.