Shawn Achor’s Ted Talk on positive psychology is a memorial Ted Talk. Achor is able to educate the audience on positive psychology while making it humorous and fun for all. It is very interesting how he is able to talk about positive psychology and do so in a positive and light way. Generally in psychological research, researchers aim to find a uniform graph that shows strong relationships between variables. If there is ever data that falls too far off the average, then it is considered an outlier and will most often get deleted. Positive psychology chooses to not delete the outlier, but rather study them closely.
The Ted Talk at Franklin College was very interested because the professors who put it on broke the audience up into groups and had us all come up with a definition of happiness. Happiness is an abstract concept that is relative between different individuals. This relativeness could make the process of defining the term difficult; however, my group worked very well together in coming up with many different important concepts and then filtering them all together.
The professors challenged us to start leading a happier life. They suggested that we start noting three positive things per day. I have started doing this every night before I go to sleep because it allows me to ruminate on the positives. This rumination surpasses the negatives. Another challenge they had for us is the show appreciation to at least one individual per day. Being the president of my fraternity, I often request many different things from my officers. I have realized that I lack showing appreciation for my officers. My goal now is to show appreciation to one of my officers once a day. By doing this appreciation, my hopes are that the officers will be happier and I will be happier because I won’t take them for granted.
Achor talked about how initially something may bring happiness to us, but overtime we take it for granted. We then have to move on a find another thing that brings us happiness. I do not want to take my officers for granted; therefore, I will do my best to actively appreciate them, even the outliers.
The Ted Talk at Franklin College was very interested because the professors who put it on broke the audience up into groups and had us all come up with a definition of happiness. Happiness is an abstract concept that is relative between different individuals. This relativeness could make the process of defining the term difficult; however, my group worked very well together in coming up with many different important concepts and then filtering them all together.
The professors challenged us to start leading a happier life. They suggested that we start noting three positive things per day. I have started doing this every night before I go to sleep because it allows me to ruminate on the positives. This rumination surpasses the negatives. Another challenge they had for us is the show appreciation to at least one individual per day. Being the president of my fraternity, I often request many different things from my officers. I have realized that I lack showing appreciation for my officers. My goal now is to show appreciation to one of my officers once a day. By doing this appreciation, my hopes are that the officers will be happier and I will be happier because I won’t take them for granted.
Achor talked about how initially something may bring happiness to us, but overtime we take it for granted. We then have to move on a find another thing that brings us happiness. I do not want to take my officers for granted; therefore, I will do my best to actively appreciate them, even the outliers.