Positive Psychology P1

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Positive Psychology P1

Outline

  • Shift the pendulum slightly, reasons:

    • Questions matter.
      • Focus on what works! Focus on our strength.
      • Positive questions -> new possibilities, find potential.

  • Happiness doesn’t spontaneously arise when take unhappiness away. (Not sufficient)

    • Mainly focus on the health model, the source of health (to thrive, not just getting rid of unhappiness)
      • Disease model <=0
      • Work on the positive, go beyond 0
    • Comfortably numb ☹ -> find a flow, pursue happiness, find excitement,

  • 0-> positive, help us deal with depression. Happy restrain unhappy

  • Not have a quest on getting rid of depression, but on pursuing happy.

  • Set root and focus on the lack of positive factor.

  • Like the pandemic

    • The youth, less health problem, stronger physical immune system not directly on treating the illness, but keep healthy, and recover naturally.

    • The elderly, on the opposite, they have more problem and can’t recover and need to treat directly.

  • Cultivate capacity -> to deal with inevitable problem

  • Identify who we really are, what we are able to do and what we really like.

Premise of the course

1. Bridge building (between school and society)

2. Change is possible (how)

3. Internal factors are more important (our own perception to the world)

4. Human nature needs to be obeyed

5. Happiness is a moral claim, but not the end

Bridge building

  • Interact with the world. The academic and research need to combine with the “filthy” experience

  • Sense of mission, change the world better.

  • Not just ME, money, prestige, honor… … but the society, devote money and time. (Donation and voluntary activity)

  • Self-fulfilling prophecy

  • Susceptible

  • Idealism and good intention on trying to resolve the conflict are not enough,

  • (May ignore the problem)

  • Merge the research and the practice.

Change is possible

  • How much do gene matter (research)

  • Have experience, evidence -> whether to how

  • Error of the average -> Study the best (possibly the best -> realize the potential)

  • Precious experience

  • Do the best

Response paper

Go for Possibly the Best

In this lesson, the professor first provided three reasons why we should shift the pendulum slightly to positive psychology research. After that, he set five premises of the course: “bridge building, change is possible, internal factors are more important, human nature needs to be obeyed, and happiness is a moral claim, but not the end.”

The point “change is possible” is a critical premise of having positive psychology, which is generated from discarding the “error of the average” and “studying the best”. It switches the question of whether it’s possible to change to how to change for the better and gives researchers and patients a strong belief.

First, the subpoint of studying the best means a lot. Humans are not like rigid physics models but have enormous differences in lots of aspects. When facing a problem, the average situation is plain and normally can’t provide a solution, but the best shows the potential and possibility and contains valuable experience and information.

When we know something can work, a positive perception and an ultimate goal are shown. There must be some reasons behind the special situation. So, the question we ask should focus on what factor we lack to achieve the best situation that works. While the passive questions on dealing with problems can only make the negative score go up to zero, the positive questions can make it rise up to the max positive number. The strong determination to realize the potential is crucial in achieving a better outcome, when we dedicate our best, the best situation may not be random ever.