Whereas the negative affect refers to the frequency and intensity of unkind emotions such as sadness. * I would choose not to be hooked to a machine that would only give feelings of cheerfulness. As mentioned in the text we may be only happy for a while, but I would not even choose to experience that for a while. Hedonic perspective defines happiness as maximizing pleasure with minimal pain. Being hooked to that machine even for a while might bring us hedonic happiness.
| Josh | Needs more engagement, dissatisfied, punctual, willing to do the bare minimal. | The motivation for Josh is to find him another position that is equal pay. He gets burned out doing the same task and looses engagement and focus with continual task. He should be switched to a faster pace position that is critical for operations. Make him excited about his job and he will feel more accomplished.
Rather, we choose to live them in the Present so that they are there in the Future. Living LOVE in the NOW, allows us to experience Joy now and continue to produce it until we have so much that we simply want to share it. By sharing it, we encourage others to feel Joy and for them to leave behind their negative emotions and glide forward into a self-empowering future. Living love now means being optimistic in that reality is faced, problems are acknowledged, solutions are sought and found, and harmony is maintained or extended to bring Joy. Living love means being humble and self-aware enough to acknowledge one's life as a miracle, one's place in the universe as miniscule, one's influence on others as great as their can be on us.
“Every end is just the start to something else.” When one goal is accomplished, it does not stop there. Achieving one goal reveals many more to search and fulfill. Making dreams come true through hard work and labor is what keeps humans growing. “I’m searching, seeking, reaching for something more. I’ll be better than before.” By reaching out for things in this life, humans attain more knowledge through experience and also improve their personality and character.
Other reasons are that Boomers prefer to stay active. Others prefer to share wisdom and knowledge by mentoring the youth. As retirement funds decrease and social security age continues to be pushed back it is imperative that we do not overlook the growing career needs of the Boomers as they live longer and more productive lives. (Emily Brandon | U.S.News & World Report LP ). Five personality characteristics have been attributed to later life satisfaction.
Basic Concepts in Positive Psychology Kevin Brown Psy/220 1/11/2015 Subjective well-being for researchers is by having emotional reactions and cognitive judgments that is based on the study of happiness. Subjective well-being is measured when it comes on judgments by satisfactions and feelings of fulfillment. When evaluating an area of their lives such as career and relationships. When developing emotional feelings and experiencing different types of emotions positive or negative. SWB “includes the various types of evaluation of one's life one might make - it can include self-esteem, joy, feelings of fulfillment, and so forth”.
The four basic beliefs of the humanistic theory include the presence of a person, that person taking personal responsibility for their actions, and that person also believing that they are worthy. Lastly, that person will personally grow and understand. Carl Rogers believes that everyone needs to build self regard on their self concept - and then build unconditional positive regard. Unconditional positive regard when others demonstrate unconditional love. Rogers believes that psychologically healthy people enjoy life to the fullest.
When you’re an adult things become harder and stressful. Now you have to work, balance the check book, and so much more. If you have a family, you have to plan the times your kids have practice if they are in sports, drama, or even music class. You have to juggle so many things which means you must have good time management. Being an adult does have its positive sides though.
This creates repetition • The only way to keep our consciousness away from seeing tasks as merely tasks is to accept that what we’re doing is absurd; meaning we have to view our tasks as meaningless • The more absurd a task, the less we think of the task, thus making us happy. Camus says our happiness is inversely related to how meaningless it is. The more absurd (meaningless) the task, the more happy we are. (?) • He is implying that the grounds for happiness should not be sought in reason/meanings • Depression: people suffering from depression are not unreasonable.
The main ideas of “Talent is Overrated” is to help people have better look of talent and get to know and learn about deliberate practice. People who looking for this book are usually people who educated or people who seeking for success and finding way to practice rightly. In beginning of the book, Colvin said: “Many people not only fail to become outstandingly good at what they do, no matter how many years they spend doing it, they frequently don’t even get any better than they were when they started.” (3). After years of trained, yet these people still stuck in their current level and they need to find new ways to change it. “Talent is Overrated” is the best answer for them.