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Week 12
The Mystery of Happiness
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25 years ago, college students were asked what’s important. Most said family or developing a meaningful life philosophy, but today most students say being very well off financially.
Life, liberty, and the purchase of happiness has become the new American dream.
We have to understand that we come into the world in a certain way and to believe, to understand that that is who we are and to respect that is who we are
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Humor can help you relieve tension, solve problems creatively, communicate with folks, and to deal with the inevitable bumps in the road up ahead.
Look for the humor, find an excuse to laugh. If you look for it, you’ll be happier
Feel Good about Failure
Making kids feel special has become so important that many schools now avoid anything that might make anybody feel bad.
Psychology professor Carol Dweck, of Columbia University, recently published findings that show that the kind of praise find in self-esteem courses may actually hurt children’s performance.
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If you’re never told what you’re weaknesses are, how will you improve on them?
Protecting kids from failure, they say, is the worst sort of false kindness.
Affluenza
60 percent of all Americans say that their children are not just materialistic—they’re very materialistic.
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People that had more money were not necessarily any happier. They had just as many problems as the folks that lived in my ghetto neighborhood where I grew up. So, it began to dawn on me that money didn’t buy happiness—a very simple finding.
Gospel Connections
The Funds, Friends, and Faith of Happy People
As part of their scientific pursuit of happiness, researchers have examined possible associations between happiness and
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Age, gender, and income (assuming people have enough to afford life's necessities) give little clue to someone's happiness.
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