Monthly Archives: September 2014
89,000 people can’t be wrong
Just hours from now, Apple will unleash its own form of happiness in the form of a shiny new ithing. More importantly, UC Berkeley launches a Massive Online Course. join 89,000 of your new best buddies for this Mooc on the Science of Happiness.
The course will include:
- Short videos featuring the co-instructors and guest lectures from top experts on the science of happiness;
- Articles and other readings that make the science accessible and understandable to non-academics;
- Weekly “happiness practices”—real-world exercises that students can try on their own, all based on research linking these practices to greater happiness;
- Tests, quizzes, polls, and a weekly “emotion check-in” that help students gauge their happiness and track their progress over time;
- Discussion boards where students can share ideas with one another and submit questions to their instructors.
The Science of Happiness
Starts September 9, 2014 – Register Now!
An unprecedented free online course exploring the roots of a happy, meaningful life. Co-taught by the GGSC’s Dacher Keltner and Emiliana Simon-Thomas. Up to 16 CE credit hours available.
It is fitting this course starts the day before World Suicide Prevention Day.
Follow your passion is bad advice
“The path to a passionate life is often way more complex than the simple advice ‘follow your passion’ would suggest.”
You’ve been told you should follow your passion, to do what you love and the money will follow. But how sound is this advice? Cal Newport argues that it’s astonishingly wrong.
But if you do what you do with passion, it make all the difference.
He actually mentions Strengthsfinder as a tool, but is kind of dimissive of it. The stories he tells of people living their passions, however, he speaks of lifestyle traights they are cultivated through thir job which sounds suspiciously like people using their strengths in their work.