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So which beaches did you go to?Did you got to Shahat and the places that are on the mountains as well?Absolutely. Yeah, there's so much to see.
Did you got to Shahat and the places that are on the mountains as well?
Tal Ben-Shahar: Positive psychology essentially focuses on what works.
Tal Ben-Shahar: The earliest pioneer of positive psychology was probably Aristotle, who talked about eudaimonia or flourishing.
Tal Ben-Shahar: I don't think it's realistic that everyone goes to a Positive Psychologist nor do I think it's necessary.
Tal Ben-Shahar: What research has shown recently is that when we focus on people's strengths, when we cultivate their happiness, we're actually indirectly also helping them deal with hardships
Tal Ben-Shahar: Okay. I most certainly see my books, my writing, my teaching as self-help.
Tal Ben-Shahar: I believe that taking responsibility for one's life, for one's happiness is critical.
Tal Ben-Shahar: Yeah. Many of the self-help books today offer quick fixes so the five steps to happiness, the three things you need to do in order to become the great partner or leader, the one secret
Tal Ben-Shahar: The classic self-help book is by Samuel Smiles, a 19th century British writer who wrote a book called Self-Help.
Tal Ben-Shahar: I don't think it's the highest thing that any human can achieve, but I think it's something that we all strive for by virtue of our nature.
Tal Ben-Shahar: Yeah? Okay.
Tal Ben-Shahar: What psychologists have shown is that material affluence is not correlated with happiness except for in extreme cases.
Tal Ben-Shahar: I think that generally there is a problem with being out there all the time.
Tal Ben-Shahar: What many people think is that the problem lies with having too high expectations, so if we lower our expectations we will not be disappointed, hence we'll be
Tal Ben-Shahar: The first thing to do to become happier, paradoxically, is to accept painful emotions, to accept them as a part of being alive.
Tal Ben-Shahar: Then I think -- yeah.
Tal Ben-Shahar: There are treasures of happiness all around us and within us.
Tal Ben-Shahar: Okay. Sorry.
Tal Ben-Shahar: It's very difficult to talk about or think about happiness when one has experienced tragedy.
Tal Ben-Shahar: Many people talk about PTSD, post traumatic stress disorder, which is quite common whether after 9/11 or people coming back from Afghanistan or Iraq; however, very
Tal Ben-Shahar: There is actually very interesting research about luck by Richard Wiseman, who is a British psychologist.
Tal Ben-Shahar: Yeah. The ultimate currency is happiness.
Tal Ben-Shahar: What corporations, certainly in the 21st century, need to come to terms with is the fact that happiness pays.
Tal Ben-Shahar: The first thing that an organization needs to do is to give space, place, for people to fail.
Tal Ben-Shahar: Optimal love is about continuous growth within the relationship.
Tal Ben-Shahar: One of the major illusions is that healthy love, a healthy relationship, is devoid of conflict, whereas in fact what we see when we study the best relationships
Tal Ben-Shahar: The psychologist David Schnarch talks about gridlocks within relationships.
Tal Ben-Shahar: Education, that's our future.
Tal Ben-Shahar: I think we should introduce a happiness curriculum from kindergarten all
Tal Ben Shahar: The best advice that I got was from my philosophy teacher, Ohad Kamin.
Tal Ben-Shahar: It's very difficult for me to answer this question about worst mistake, especially after having written a book about the importance of mistakes.
Tal Ben-Shahar: One of the mantras that I repeat over and over again to myself, to my students, is learn to fail or fail to learn.
Tal Ben-Shahar: Sure. Thomas Edison patented 1,093 inventions, more than any other scientist inventor in history.
And I want every little Shahani to pick up "Here We Are" to read what their grandfather went through, and their grandmother-- my mother--
- My name is Tal Ben-Shahar.
My name is Tal Ben Shahar.
She went on to train in positive psychology with the renowned Harvard professor Tal Ben-Shahar.
Murdoch who's also a writer and she's really a fabulist even when we were growing up she was kind of like Shahara zad you know she can just invent things
Hello and welcome. I'm so pleased to introduce you to my friend, Aarti Shahani.
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