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Brantleigh Bradshaw
Professor Jizi
UWRT 1104
21 February 2017
Double Entry Journal
Citation: Seligman, Martin E.P. Flourish. What Is Well-Being?
but I actually detest the word happiness,
which is so overused that it has become
almost meaningless.
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The 2002 theory in the book Authentic
Happiness is supposed to be a theory of
what humans choose, but it has a huge hole
in it: it omits success and mastery. People try
to achieve just for winnings own sake,
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happiness could be analyzed into three
different elements that we choose for their
own sakes: positive emotion, engagement,
and meaning. Page7
Hence, the importance of identifying your
highest strengths and learning to use them
more often in order to go into the flow.
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Even without knowing the particulars of
these high points of your life, I know their
form: all of them took place around other
people.
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loneliness is such a disabling condition that
it compels the belief that the pursuit of
relationships is a rock-bottom fundamental to
human well-being. Page18
So the goal of positive psychology in well-
being theory is to measure and to build
human flourishing. Achieving this goal starts
by asking what really makes us happy.
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I agree that the word happy is overused.
People ask me all the time if I am happy and
although my answer is almost always yes,
sometimes I think I just say that to avoid
talking about how I am really feeling.
Does this mean that success leads to
happiness? Or success is happiness?
Now that I think about it, people act out of
happiness because of these three elements,
but how did he come to the conclusion that
these were the three that mattered?
I recently took an online quiz that was able to
tell me my five top strengths. Now that I know
them, I will try to use them more in my life.
I remember the last time I felt indescribable joy
was when I was with my friends at the
Charlotte-Douglas Airport Overlook on
Sunday. I can resonate with what the author is
saying here.
Recently I watched a movie where the main
protagonist was paralyzed and refused help or
relationships with others, until he realized that
doing so was something that made him
unhappy in his life, kind of like what the author
is saying here.
So every single person has a different answer
to What really makes us happy? but the end
result/goal is the same.