哈佛公开课：幸福课第一课英文字幕(6)

teaching me", something you would say "thank you for reminding me of something that I've already known". And this is what this class is about. It's constant reminder, twice a week. Constant reminder of what you already know, of what is inside you. The David that is inside you. And what this class will hopefully do is to help you chip away some of these limitations, whether it's limitation, cognitive limitations that prevent you from seeing what you already knew, emotional limitations that are preventing you from deriving the benefits of what you already know, or behavioral limitations. The ABC: affect, behavior, and cognition that we'll talk about during the change week. So I'm making common sense more common. Information in and of itself is simply not enough. It's not enough and what we need in addition to our information highway is a transformation highway. Transformation high way, or transformation back roads, to come through the fast increasing pace. Because as we'll talk about next time, rates of depression are on the rise, rates of anxiety are on the rise, not just in this country, globally. It's literally global epidemic. And to deal with it, more information will just not do. Just not enough.Here is Archibald MacLeish. He was a poet, was a Harvard professor, "What is wrong is not the great discoveries of science-- information is always better than ignorance, no matter what information or what ignorance. What is wrong is the belief behind the information, the belief that information will change the world. It won't." Just adding it and filling up our containers with more and more stuff. More and more information, more and more data. It's just not enough. We need more than that. This class will take a humanistic approach. Let me read you a quick excerpt by Abraham Maslow who talks about this approach, "If one took a course or picked up a book on the psychology of learning, most of it, in my opinion, would be beside the point - that is, beside the 'humanistic' point. Most of it would present learning as the acquisition of associations, of skills and capacities that are external and not intrinsic to the human character, to the human personality, to the person himself." External refers to information. Internal refers to the transformation, the changing of the form. And when we talk about transformation, actually mean it quite literally-- changing of the form, changing of the brain as we'll talk about. We'll talk about meditation for instance.We know our brain today can actually change through MRI studies since 1998. A new concept came up which is Neurogenesis or Neuroplasticity, meaning our brain actually changes and transforms. It changes its form throughout our life. So I don't just mean it metaphorically, I also very often mean it literally. Abraham Maslow continues, "Humanistic philosophy offers a new conception of learning, of teaching, and of education. Stated simply, such a concept holds that the function of education, the goal of education— the human goal, the humanistic goal, the goal so far as human beings are concerned— is ultimately the "self-actualization" of a person, the becoming fully human, the development of the fullest height that the human species can stand up to or that the particular individual can come to.In a less technical way, it is helping the person to become the best that he is able to become." And this was before the Ad came up for the army. That "Be all you can be." This is what the class is about. It's the humanistic approach. It's about fulfilling our potential, chipping away those limitations. Now to many of you this may sound naive, idealistic. Naive it is not. Idealistic, it is. And we'll talk about and discuss the importance of idealism and maintaining idealism if we are to introduce personal change, inter-personal change, or community or society change. This class is not about providing answers, concerning the good life and happiness. It is about identifying the right questions. "Ask and ye shall you receive", say the Scripture. This class is what I think education is all about, which is that the quest for information and transformation must begin with the question. Quest, question, there is no coincidence that there is an etymological link between the two. In this class we'll be asking, you'll be asked many questions, questions that as you'll see, create reality. We'll talk about it already next time. The importance of the questions you ask of yourselves first and foremost, of your partner, of your students, of your parents, of your employees in the future, teammates and so on. Questions make a difference.Peter Drucker, ―The most common source of mistakes in management decisions Peter Drucker, considered the most important management scholar of 20th century, just recently passed away, saying the biggest mistake is not asking the right questions. As we'll see next time, this is the biggest mistake in research potentially. This is the biggest mistake in application. Not asking the right questions as well, whether it's in managing organizations, whether it's managing our lives. Now. When I said that questions are important and answers matter less, I am not coming from a point of relativism. I'm not a relativist. I think they are ... To some questions definitive answers that are important to know. However, what I'm saying is that it's important, not less important to focus on questions when it comes to education.The educator, Neil Postman once said, "The kids enter schools as question marks and they leave as periods." My hope in this class is to bring up many more question marks than periods. Once again, it's about chipping away the excess stone because as kids, we are always asking questions. We are always curious. Let me show you a quick excerpt from a video of one of my favorite psychologists, actually the comedian, Seinfeld. We will watch a lot of excerpts throughout the semester. Talking about what we were like as kids. See is this in your way "So, the first couple of years I made my own costumes which of course sucked: the ghost, the hobo... Then, finally, the third year, begging the parents, I got the Superman Halloween costume. Not surprisingly. Cardboard box, self-made top, mask included. Remember the rubber band on the

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