哈佛公开课：幸福课第一课英文字幕(8)

that. And if something from the field of consulting in organizational behavior could contribute, that became part of the class, as much as I could fit in of course in one semester. So the class is eclectic. The class is not cross-cultural. I will bring in ideas from eastern thoughts. I lived in Asia for a few years. I worked there. Studied and continue to study the eastern philosophies and psychologies. But my train primarily is in western psychology. And the focus of the class will be that. However that doesn't mean that positive psychology doesn't apply to people from different places in the world. There was recently a meeting between senior scientists, psychologists from the west, people like Paul Ekman, Richard Davidson- some of the most important minds in the field of psychology meeting with the Dalai Lama and some of his monks.They were talking about the future of psychology, about the research, and how can you research meditation and so on. And one of the things they were talking a lot about is the cultural differences. And when that came up, the Dalai Lama suddenly seemed uneasy. And when Daniel Goleman who was writing about this whole event and it was held in India asked him what's wrong, Dalai Lama said that he was not comfortable with talking and emphasizing so much cultural differences. You can say many things about Dalai Lama. One thing you cannot say about him is that he's culturally insensitive, arguably one of the most sensitive people alive. And yet he said we are focusing too much on cultural differences and he added not because there are no cultural differences. Of course there are and they are important. But there are many more similarities than differences. And we shouldn't ignore those similarities.Daniel Goleman about the Dalai Lama, "We were a little bit surprised by the Dalai Lama's seeming resistance to the notion of cultural differences. So I am willing to introduce these ideas but A, because it's not my training and people who are focusing on cultural differences will do a much better job than I do; and second, because what I hope to look into is the universal, things are common across cultures. So we'll study research in this area. But even more than that, we'll become even more particular than just talking about psychology in this part of the world. We'll study yourselves. We are going to go that particular. Now why? When I put this class together, I didn't think to myself, "Ok, so what are the things that I need to introduce in order to please the participants in the class, the students?"That's not what I thought. What I thought about was "what was the class that I would have wanted to take as an undergraduate here? What would help me become happier if I were sitting there?" In other words, thinking from my perspective from very personal perspective. In this class I am going to encourage you. about large sample sizes. But I'm going to encourage you more than anything to look inside yourselves. To study yourselves. Whether it's through response papers that will be due weekly starting in 2 weeks; whether it's in your final project that will be a presentation that you won't have to give but you'll have to write out-- a presentation about your favorite topic or the topic that matters most to you; whether it's in sections that you'll be talking about how can I apply these ideas to my life.The time-ins are about thinking about how can I take in the ideas and use them. It's about studying ourselves. Because as Carl Rogers says, "What is most personal is most general." "What is most personal is most general." And as Maslow adds, "We must remember that knowledge of one's own deep nature is also simultaneously knowledge of human nature in general." When we understand ourselves better, when we identify ourselves, we are better able to identify with others. In fact, this is in many ways the source of empathy, of the healthy empathy. And there are some studies showing that people who know themselves, who study themselves, who are self-reflective, display less egregious behavior, less immoral behavior toward others. Behavior that would fall under say, racism. And it's counter-intuitive to some extent. "Wait. Don't you first need to study the other so that you can be more sensitive to others?" Yes, that too. But it's not enough. It is important to also study ourselves, because when we see our deep nature, what we encounter there is part of the universal nature, the similarities among us all, regardless of where we are from.And this was what Dalai Lama was talking about: not stop cross-cultural. Do it.Important. But at the same time, not ignore the self. Not ignore the universal within each one of us. C.S. Lewis, "There is one thing and only one in the whole universe which we know about that we could learn from external observation. That one thing is ourselves. We have, so to speak, inside information; we are in the know." Now there are of course biases when we study ourselves which is why it's not enough to just study the self. It's important to counter it, to add to it, academic work, studying others. That's why we'll do some research or study research as well as do some search-- searching inside us. Both are important. We shouldn't, just because there are biases and mistakes that potentially can be made, it doesn't mean we need to throw out the baby with the bath water and stop studying ourselves. So we'll do that or rather you'll do that probably more than any other class on campus.Finally this may be news to you, but this is not English 10A or Math 55, meaning you'll not have to read as much as you will read for 10A or for a history class, and this class is not as difficult as Math 55 so you rest. I'm sure there are some people here who took the class. This class at the same time is about rigorous fun. Fun...because it's fun to study ourselves. Sometimes it hurts and sometimes we see things that we may not like, but overall it's fun. It's interesting. And at the same time it's rigorous, based on research. Now many of the ideas that you'll encounter in this class are very simple, very accessible. Common sense. However they are simple, not simplistic. And here is the difference. Oliver Wendell Holmes NOliver Wendell

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