16-12. Notes of Positive Psychology Chapter 2

Below notes are from Harvard Open Course: Positive Psychology chapter 2.

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• Research is not suit for everyone. Identify what suit you, and apply it in your life.

• Characters of extraordinary person:
  faith, sense of meaning, help others, focus on strength, future oriented( not just wonder how bad I was today), role model, social support, strength to admit weakness.

• Questions create reality.(Exercise:提问画中有几个三角形，回答者却根本不记得公交车上有有几个孩子，甚至根本没看到)

• When we appreciate the good(virtue, success, and so on), the good grow. Unfortunately, the opposite also works.

• Active agent:take responsibility（rather than blame others）, take action after experience the pain.

• Take responsibility of your own life, understand that no one is coming.

Quotes:

• Our experience of the world is heavily influenced by where we place our attention.

Summary: Questions create reality.