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Feb 1, 2007
"Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come." --Chinese Proverb
Happiness 101
A positive-psychology class called the Science of Well-Being -— essentially a class in how to make yourself happier -— at George Mason University in Virginia is a challenge for positive psychologists. It is one of the 15 unhappiest campuses in America, at least per The Princeton Review. The class is taught by Todd Kashdan, a 32-year-old psychology professor whose area of research is "curiosity and well-being." Kashdan takes his students, a few of them older than he, through the various building blocks of positive psychology: optimism, gratitude, mindfulness, hope, spirituality.
BE THE CHANGE
Keep a green tree in your heart: come to your next challenging situation with an appreciation of the positive.
