Delaney

Happiness
Project
Annotated Bibliography
Source 1:

Shimizu, Eiji Han. "Yekra - The Happy Movie | The Happy Movie." Yekra - The Happy Movie | The

Happy Movie. Roko Belic, 9 Apr. 2011. Web. 09 Feb. 2017

Values, social connections, intrinsic goals, and helping others are all what some people
believe to be the path to the flow of happiness.
The movie Happy was showing what things could make people happy by going all around the
world to interview people and ask them what makes them happy.There were many possibilities
of what could make people happy, some that included: Family, helping others, spiritual beliefs,
wealth, healing through trauma, dopamine, physical activities, and flow were all arguments that
could make people happy. The people in the movie Happy were all interviewed and they had all
their own different opinions of what happiness is. Studies apparently showed that people who
thought would make them happy were more depressed, while the other people who were happy
with what they had and were happy with social connections and family were less depressed.
Another thing could make people less happy because of wealth was work. In the movie, the
Japanese was one of the less happy countries due to the fact that they over work themselves,
which can lead to stress or exhaustion which can eventually lead to the death of an employee.
The movie also showed that healing through trauma can make people happy. One woman in
the movie was hit by a car and was badly injured. She felt that she couldnt go on anymore, but
finding what she loved and realized who loved her for who she was, she became happy. One of
the main characters, a surfer found happiness with physical activity and doing what they loved
and being really connected to Earth. Another man who helped others by working a house for the
destitute and dying found happiness by making them happy and helping others.
This movie not only showed different views of happiness, but it also showed how people could
be happy no matter what. It also showed what made them happy which had helped us realize
that there are certain things that make people happy than other reasons to be happy.

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Source 2:

Smith, Emily Esfahani. "There's More to Life Than Being Happy." The Atlantic. Atlantic Media
Company, 9 Jan. 2013. Web. 10 Feb. 2017
Find the purpose or meaning in someones life can lead to fulfillment, in knowing what they want to
do and knowing where they want to go. Knowing this can lead people to happiness, maybe true
happiness.
The article Theres More to Life Than Being Happy is telling people exactly what the title says. There
is more to life than being happy. This article is not only speaking to us about there being more than
happiness in your life, but also about the Jewish psychiatrist who started this whole idea. Being
Jewish in the early 1940s Frankl had a choice to flee to America With his wife or face a
Concentration Camp with his parents. He had made the decision to go to the Concentration camp.
Frankl said, For one man, it was his young child, who was living in a foreign country. For the other,
a scientist, it was a series of books that he needed to finish. So because of this the two men at the
Concentration camp that Frankl had met had reasons to life and had a meaning in their lives to keep
on going. Another key part in the difference between takers and givers. Takers were happy because
they just kept on taking and saw that the only purpose in their life was taking and wanting things.
The giver has meaning in their life which can lead to happiness because they give to others and see
meaning in their own life, but also in other people as well. So because they found meaning was
because they made other people happy because they gave to them. Another key point in the article
was suffering in life. There was a study in 2011 that said, Having negative events happen to you,
the study found, decreases your happiness, but increases the amount of meaning you have in your
life. So if you something bad happens to you or you go through a certain trauma, you are less
happy, but you feel that you have more meaning in your life.
This article had a lot of main points about how meaning in someones life can lead to joy of which
can lead to happiness.

Source 3
Annotated Bibliography:

Seligman, Martin. "The New Era of Positive Psychology." Martin Seligman: The New Era of Positive
Psychology | TED Talk | TED.com. Tedtalks, 21 July 2009. Web. 10 Feb. 2017.

Martin Seligman spoke for TED Talk, his talk was called The New ERa of Positive Psychology.
Seligman spoke spoke about some certain topics, those of which included, good, and not good.
The subtopics of good were diseases were treatable and curable, due to reliable diagnostics. They
have discovered treatments by experimenting. Also the study of making the miserable people happy.
Not good, the categories that consisted within that when they were making people less miserable
they were making them victimologists and pathologists, making people more normal and not letting
them take bigger risks in their lives. They also have ways of measuring types happiness by having
them take surveys or tests. Seligman also talks about the differences between happy people and
miserable people, of course there are many differences, but a few differences he talks about are:Sad
people tend to spend time alone and are normally introverted, while happy tend to be more social
and extroverted and have a bigger social group. Seligman also talks about three different types of
happy life style, those three are called Pleasure Life, Good Life, and Meaningful Life. The Pleasure
Life is pretty much where a person tries to be as positive and tries to have as many pleasures as
possible. Because of this they amplify their happiness. The pleasant life is inheritable, their
happiness can also be trickable. The next life is called the Good Life, this is where you have a love
around you or just a love life, success, and a good job or they like their work. Introverts are
apparently less happy. Another key is that there is a difference between pleasure and flow.
Pleasure is you know its happening. Flow you can't feel it happening. Another things that can make
people happy is when they find their strengths and they learn to work with their strengths, you also
get more observant. The Meaningful Life is when you are happy because you are serving a better, a
bigger purpose in life. What helped the sad people was making a gratitude letter, social connection
to help people, and designing their own beautiful days.

Source 4
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Anderson, Jenny. "Why Are Our Kids so Miserable?" Quartz. Quartz, 21 Mar. 2016. Web. 13 Feb.
2017. <https://qz.com/642351/is-the-way-we-parent-causing-a-mental-health-crisis-in-our-kids/>.

There was a study conducted between high schoolers and college students of why kids are so
miserable and depressed these days, there are a lot of reasons why young children are miserable,
but due to studies here are a few of the reasons.
2010-2012 compared to the 1980s there are a lot of differences, but this studys main comparison
between the two is that depression had started to drop down in the 1980s, but then spiked in the
1990s and then fell again. In 2008 it spiked and really hasnt gone back down much. Apparently
year olds in England are the most unhappy teenagers in the world. Reasons kids can be depressed
is because of breakdown in the family, relationships, technology, poverty, and inequality. One
reason why even younger children are unhappy is because they do not know how to cope with life
skills because they dont have time or they just simply time to play. The play time of a child can
increase intrinsic goals which can lessen depression. It is very good to be able to do math, but not
as good as picking up on social cues. When youre in preschool, kindergarten, or even the first grade
you are almost taught to manage emotions and not pick up on social cues. This is because when in
recess rules can or used to be managed by kids, now they have adults supervision so they do not
have their own rules. Parents agree with this because they dont want their kid to get hurt or
abducted. Apparently if they dont learn independently they will stress out and fail life. Another theory
of why kids are so depressed is because of technology, but apparently depression rates shot up
before the cell phone. Another thing is stressing your child to do good in everything or have an
extracurriculars because parents dont want to be bored or on their phone all day. Another reason is
high schoolers are so stressed out is because of college, the parents then blame the schools. A
thing to stop depression or make your children less miserable is to post something that they did on
facebook or praising them.

Source 5
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"Hows Life?" OECD Better Life Index. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 Feb. 2017.
<http://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/#/
This website measured the happiness around the world for each country. We chose the country that
measured closest to our beliefs on how important certain things in our society are. Mine measured
up to Switzerland. Switzerland is the second out of 38 countries in a happiness ranking, whereas the
United States is 15th. 97% of Switzerland is happy with their water quality and 80% is working for a
good paying job at the ages of fifteen to sixty four. The average happiness for Switzerland is 7.6.
This is just certain things that show the measurement of happiness in Switzerland.

Source 6:Alderman, Lesley. "The Year of Conquering Negative Thinking." The New York Times. The
New York Times, 3 Jan. 2017. Web. 21 Feb. 2017.
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Research Question: Are people who focus too much on self image not focusing enough on the
intrinsic goals that make them happy?
People dwell too much negative thinking, this article explains ways to overcome the negative
thinking in order to lessen depression. Few ways to overcome negative thinking is to not overly
obsess over the negative, but be able to control your thoughts on the negative situation.Ways to do
this is to accept that it is a negative thought and being able to control your negativity once you have
accepted the negative thoughts. People who think too much on negative thinking, mainly children
are thinking on the negative because they have been bullied, teased, have experience with trauma,
or have been abused. Women are more likely to be more open to negative thinking. Accepting the
negative thoughts or just accepting yourself is way to happiness. You can control the negative
thinking by doing meditation, which you are also focusing on the positive. Doing a socratic seminar
for people to talk about the negative is to discuss how they have been feeling, which can also lessen
negative thinking. This meditation can also make people lose weight. If someone was in a bad
situation and you are in a bad situation, then the way you would give them advice is to advise
yourself first. When you are depressed make a list of people that love you, make a list of
accomplishments that are positive, this can lessen depression and decrease negative thinking.

Source 7:Gross, Stanley J. "How To Raise Your Self-Esteem." Psych Central. Psych Central, 17 July
2016. Web. 21 Feb. 2017. <https://psychcentral.com/lib/how-to-raise-your-self-esteem/>
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Self esteem is learned and inherited. Self esteem can be high some places and low at others. Low
self esteem can come when we have been through a situation or we know of a situation that is
sensitive to us. There is a possibility of raising self esteem, but it is not simple. Some steps to raise
self esteem is to lose addictions like drugs and alcohol. Being able to take care of ones self. Another
thing is to be able to identify the self esteem and being able to stop it, being able to identify the
negative things and stop it. Another things is to be able to notice the triggers of self esteem and
being able to identify the reaction that you have and it is okay to overreact. Being able to do this you
are giving yourself to have possibilities of how to deal with it and being able to think positively. When
you have realized the low self esteem level, ending the addiction is one thing to end the self esteem
issue. Another thing to do is standing up for yourself and hear other peoples opinions about you in a
positive way.
Source 8: Khazan, Olga. "Why Self-Compassion Works Better Than Self-Esteem." The Atlantic.
Atlantic Media Company, 06 May 2016. Web. 21 Feb. 2017.
<https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/05/why-self-compassion-works-better-than-self-est
eem/481473/
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This article was about self esteem versus self compassion. Self esteem is where you compare
yourself to others and just have issues with yourself. Self compassion is where you are kind to
yourself and you know that everyone else fails or has problems of their own. Knowing that everyone
messes up and you are being kind to yourself. Self esteem is where we start to compare ourselves
to others which can either lead to self esteem or high self esteem. Low self esteem can cause things
that lead up to depression whereas the pursuit of high self esteem can lead to narcissism which can
lead to bad relationships. When people compare themselves they feel special. The author says that
being above average is impossible. Self compassion is where you are telling yourself that everyone
messes up, that they probably have challenges with their child or are in a bad relationship as well.
When you fail you use self compassion to say that everyone fails, so that you are not as surprised to
see that you fail.

Source 9: Myers, David G. "The Secrets of Happiness." Psychology Today. Psychology Today, 1
July 1992. Web. 22 Feb. 2017.
<https://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/199207/the-secrets-happiness>
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The article is explaining that there are a few reasons that make people happy people, these reasons
include self esteem, Optimists, Extroverts, and being able to choose or control your own life. One
reason why self esteem can help happiness is because self esteem can lead to self compassion
which can lead to happiness. People with high self esteem and who are happy can be happy with
themselves, but can also not be comfortable or be happy around friends and family. There was a
study in 1989 that said that liking yourself or having high self esteem is way more important than
loving other people. You have to love yourself first before you learn to love other people. People with
high self esteem can believe good descriptions about themselves as well as looking back on past
mistakes and talking about their own weaknesses which can lead to self compassion. This can also
protect people from depression and low self esteem. The more people compare themselves, the less
happy people are. Another trait that can make people more happy is optimism. Optimism is generally
focused around very happy people who see everything positive and see the glass half full instead of
half empty. Optimists are healthier can recover from illnesses and cancer easier. People who are
very happy with themselves see mistakes as ways of improving. There needs to be a balance of
optimism and pessimism so people optimists can come back to reality. Another trait that make
people more happy are extroverts are classified to be very social. Extroverts are more cheerful and
more social and likely to succeed. Another trait for people to be more happy is choosing your own
path. This makes people more happy considering that people need to make decisions on their own
and control their lives, which makes people more happy
Source 10:Neill, Frank. "Intrinsic Goals Are Vital for Well-being - NZ Law Society." New Zealand Law
Society. New Zealand Law Society, 3 Nov. 2016. Web. 24 Feb. 2017.
<https://www.lawsociety.org.nz/lawtalk/issue-900/Intrinsic-goals-are-vital-for-well-being
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This article mainly focused on how we need to focus more on intrinsic goals rather than extrinsic
goals because people who strive for extrinsic goals are more depressed than people who focus on
extrinsic goals. People who are more focused on intrinsic goals have better social relationship and
know how to take care of theirself. People who focus more on extrinsic like lawyers are more
depressed because they are already successful and stressed out because they need more money
and are stressed out with work. People who focus on extrinsic goals are more likely to develop
mental health issues than people who focus more on the intrinsic goals. Depression is caused
because of low focus on intrinsic goals and high focus on the extrinsic goals. Sometimes people who
have spiritual beliefs or are more happier have higher intrinsic goals.Another factor that comes into
this is called virtue. Virtue is where people know who they are and have their own personal goals,
people who have good virtue ethics tend to be happier. If people focus on social status, but also
focus on intrinsic goals know that they have to take care of themselves.