Noah Brown
Deby Jizi
UWRT 1104
18 September 2017
Double Entry Journal
Citation: Seligman, Martin E. P. Flourish. North Sydney, NSW, Random House Australia, 2012.
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A month later, a check for $1.5 million
appeared (Page 3 last paragraph)
The first Step in positive psychology is to
dissolve the monism of happiness into
more workable terms (Page 5 last sentence)
The first is positive emotion; what we feel:
pleasure, rapture, ecstasy, warmth, comfort,
and the like. An entire life led successfully
around this element, I call the pleasant
life. (Page 7 3rd paragraph)
I believe that the concentrated attention that When we are concentrated on something we
flow requires uses up all the cognitive and
emotional resources that make up thought
and feeling. (Page 7 4th paragraph)
Human beings, ineluctably, want meaning
and purpose in life. (Page 8 2nd paragraph)
The Meaningful Life consists in belonging
to and serving something that you believe is
bigger than the self and humanity creates all
the positive institutions to allow this:
religion, political party, being green, the Boy
Scouts, or the family. (Page 8 2nd
paragraph)
Responses
Where is this money coming from and how is
he getting it? Why so much?
Different people view happiness in different
ways and I think we have to keep it that way
because everyone is not the same and
everyone does not think the same.
Feeling all these things are a great feeling and
he describes it well as living the pleasant
life.
use all our brain to focus in on that one thing
and zone everything else out.
If you dont want your life to have a purpose
or meaning then I think you need to rethink
your goals and aspirations in life.
I believe this is true and serving something or
living life for someone or something bigger
than yourself shows how caring and motivated
you are to shine and be great.
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And it turns out that life satisfaction does
not take into account how much meaning we
have or how engaged we are in our work or
how engaged we are with the people we
love. (Page 10)
Life satisfaction comes from times when we a
in a mood where we are happy and enjoy life
in that exact time. Its not labeled that we are
happy when we are with our family or how
much we love certain things.