1. What is it about the question "Are you happy?" that makes Lenoir uneasy?
2. What happens to most people after confronting serious illness or a career setback OR a positive improvement in life circumstances?
3. What is the "age effect"?
4. What forms of love did Aristotle not distinguish?
5. Happiness, like health, is a ______ phenomenon.
6. Lenoir's example of contagious, shared rapture is what?
Others?
2. What happens to most people after confronting serious illness or a career setback OR a positive improvement in life circumstances?
3. What is the "age effect"?
4. What forms of love did Aristotle not distinguish?
5. Happiness, like health, is a ______ phenomenon.
6. Lenoir's example of contagious, shared rapture is what?
Others?
DQ:
1. "We are almost all 'more or less happy'" day to day, in a fluctuating way. So, what's the most sympathetic thing you can say about Lenoir's previous suggestion that we might be "happy every moment"?
2. Can you confirm the claim that we always recur to our happiness set-point? Have you experienced unsustained highs or lows? Do you think you've raised your personal set-point, over the course of your life? Are you working to do so?
3. Do you anticipate a "mellow" future? Do you dread the prospect of senescence?
4. Are we really "visceral egoists"? And isn't it an error to include Adam Smith (as opposed to some free-marketeers who think they're following him) as one of these? ("There is nothing is Adam Smith to support a 'greed is good' mentality," write Solomon & Higgins.) Are you an altruist?
5. Have you personally experienced the phenomenon of (un-)happy contagion?
6. If schaudenfreude can be explained in evolutionary terms, can cooperation and the spirit of mutual support be similarly explained?
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Sherry Turkle on reclaiming conversation... If you're happy and you know it... Lenoir 13-15 podcast...
U@d Contagious happiness
2. Can you confirm the claim that we always recur to our happiness set-point? Have you experienced unsustained highs or lows? Do you think you've raised your personal set-point, over the course of your life? Are you working to do so?
3. Do you anticipate a "mellow" future? Do you dread the prospect of senescence?
4. Are we really "visceral egoists"? And isn't it an error to include Adam Smith (as opposed to some free-marketeers who think they're following him) as one of these? ("There is nothing is Adam Smith to support a 'greed is good' mentality," write Solomon & Higgins.) Are you an altruist?
5. Have you personally experienced the phenomenon of (un-)happy contagion?
6. If schaudenfreude can be explained in evolutionary terms, can cooperation and the spirit of mutual support be similarly explained?
???
Sherry Turkle on reclaiming conversation... If you're happy and you know it... Lenoir 13-15 podcast...
U@d Contagious happiness
DQ 5: Have you personally experienced the phenomenon of (un-)happy contagion?
ReplyDeleteJust like happiness spreads, un-happiness spreads just as easily. I try to keep a positive outlook when around those who's moods can very fast bring me down, but sometimes it is hard. So yes, I have personally experienced the phenomenon of (un-)happy contagion. I think to still continue your positive happiness around those who are un-happy is a skill one is going to have to practice and cultivate.
Quiz Question:
ReplyDeleteWhat is Aristotle's definition of a friend? (88)
Where does Lenoir say the "pessimistic conception of human nature" perhaps is inherited from? (89)
QQ: (T/F) We should compare ourselves to others in order to be happier.
ReplyDeleteDQ: How often do you let happiness be contagious in your life on a day to day basis?
ReplyDeleteDo you anticipate a "mellow" future? Do you dread the prospect of senescence?
ReplyDeleteI do. I don't spend time thinking of possible outcomes. Better not to worry than to worry about how things that are out of your hands will play out.
Can you confirm the claim that we always recur to our happiness set-point? Have you experienced unsustained highs or lows? Do you think you've raised your personal set-point, over the course of your life? Are you working to do so?
ReplyDeleteI would say yes we do. No one is sad forever, nor is anyone happy forever. We all have our ups and downs, some more than others and for longer periods of time, but mostly everyone returns to the set-point. And it psychologically challenging to try and change that.
Quiz Question
ReplyDeleteBy what percent does a happy friend increase your probability of happiness? How much does an unhappy friend drop your happiness capital?
Discussion Question
ReplyDeleteLenoir refers to our "capital of happiness," what could this capital consist of?
I love love love the section on Page 91 about how we are fundamentally good creatures, it's truly in our nature to be good. I think it's important to remember especially right now with the tragic Las Vegas shooting yesterday. Living through anger and fear is uncomfortable and unnatural. we must live through love because love is our true nature.
ReplyDeleteHave you personally experienced the phenomenon of (un-)happy contagion?
ReplyDeleteYES! There have been so many jobs I have worked where I enjoyed a happy attitude while clocking in but performed my job with people who did not enjoy seemingly anything and the effects wore me down. I ended up leaving the jobs that I found myself being unhappy as I punched my timecard to go home every day.
Extra questions for chapter 13-15:
ReplyDelete1) Who was Diogenes Laertius?
2) Who was Montaigne?
3) What did Montaigne say on page 88?
4) What does the word philia mean?
5) On page 88, what did it say about Passionate love?
6) The pessimistic perception that was mentioned on page 89, where was it inherited from?
7) What was the view of Thomas Hobbes and Adam Smith?
8) And who was it adopted by?
9) On page 90, what did the Apostle Paul reports says?