The Science of Happiness with Fred Luskin
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- Fred Luskin, PhD '99, is director of the Stanford Forgiveness Projects and a senior consultant in wellness and health promotion services at Vaden Health Center.
Dr. Luskin teaches a variety of classes on happiness at Stanford. He's part of a movement that looked at psychology in the mid-1990's and saw science based on what's wrong with people: misery, anger, frustration, and depression. His focus is not on what's gone wrong, but instead on what makes people happy and why. He describes the neurobiology behind mood states and offers strategies for finding the good, becoming more peaceful, improving relationships and appreciating yourself.
This Classes Without Quizzes lecture was filmed on location at Stanford Reunion Homecoming 2012 by the Stanford Alumni Association.
Fred is an incredible human being. He is a genius. He is kind, caring and compassionate. He is a wonderful part of our universe. He also loves the Yankees!
I have seen many happiness talks - this is the best so far. Thank you for posting this. Stay Happy!
AWESOME! Thank you for affirming my beliefs. I do public speaking about How We Beat Diabetes. . I can not wait to meet each group who come to classes. I know they will be my friends. I will find something in common, something I can help them with, something that connects us. I greet each one with a handshake. When they leave, I am there to give each one a sincere long hug. I absolutely love what I do. I have a passion for helping people and in the process I am a happier person. :D
thank you Dr Fred luskin
what a great and fascinating talk, thanks fred!
Getting things done (to do lists) gives you an great sense of satisfaction! Provided that you dont only put things on a list you detest.
Aw, Fred, after 25 years of trying to work with precepts and research of yours, i must still return, and return again.
I think of the old Upanishad mentioning that "the universe is composed of Delight", and vaguely recognize that the universe, ever-dynamical, always changing, is composed of Eagerness.
That is certainly what seems to drive the contingent not crazily, but selected mutational success of DNA in us biological creatures.
So. Eagerness for change. That tends to have made me happy, EXCEPT for areas in which i resented, or feared, and thus fail[ hopefully, -ed, but am not sure] to change.
I'm SURE that we all have to return more often to your, Fred, research results and discoveries, than we do. I remain MORE eager to return, each time some perceived injury occurs. Best to get here FIRST, before self-inducing anything other than happiness.
Thank you, we (us) need more of this.
Its how I got out of depression. Because it's not hard to be happy... it just takes thought, motive, want, effort. But it takes less of all that than dealing with negative in your life.
This also reminds me that too many people don't even have the resources many of us have so easily for survival.
Thank you.
I highly recommend this video.
God bless you thank you for making judaism be understood in a simpel way, and the way to become happy is through being gratefull and kind.
Thank you for this insightful and thought-provoking experience.
The air between us connects us rather than separates us.
Love this!
thank you
Freakin Fred Rocks!!!
Just Fantastic! Loved the meditation! Well Delivered, thought provoking! Liked the bit on personal relationships. Some Shop for friends, and relationships like they're going to the mall! Really interesting that Happiness, as a course of study is gaining in such popularity as to fill classrooms, as if again, happiness is something to "get", when essentially its an internal job.
As a person with paranoid schizophrenia I am not just my illness. I have many good relationships including a 30 year marriage and many great friends. Untreated schizophrenia is problematic for relations with others because it precludes trust in others. I have fought to keep my faith in humanity even when in episodes when I am not feeling well. My Dad fought for freedom in the second world war and I make it my business to make the world a better place. I have written two books, was a professional speaker and was part of a project to standardize treatment for people with psychosis which is being adopted world wide(ICHOM standard set for psychosis).
All that to say it is okay to be friends with someone with paranoid schizophrenia. We would welcome the chance to have human connection in a world where we are misunderstood.
He made interesting points..
Great presentation from scientific perspective. We ought to get out of the material threadmill and think about this material !
ill stay on the cardio machine, thank you very much. I feel regublient
Amazing, thank you! I would like to know more about this project.
20:25: Consumerism has turned us into people in a state of perpetual discontent, which has increasingly spilled over in other parts of our lives. George Carlin criticized the increasingly meaningless choices we regularly confront which eat up more and more of our time. But, when it comes to truly important, long term matters we only have the illusion of choice.
33:47 - This makes a difference, I believe.
ye ye ye ye ye yes ie ie ie it it it was a very helpful guide.
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This seems to be pop psychology. There is something to be said for the notion that happiness is just a fleeting emotion, i.e. that people, via evolution, are actually not wired for happiness, because to be survivors, we need to be concerned/worried about anticipating and getting through future challenges. Perhaps that is the allure of drugs which artificially conjure up an ersatz state of happiness.
What are pathways to happiness
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He wants people to be more compassionate and more helpful to other people. Maybe we would be happier if we helped ourselves more.
any update its been 1,825 according to this website on the wrold wide web
It seems to me most people, at least where I live, are mostly helping themselves. In my experience doing things for others often really does bring me more happiness than satisfying my own desires BUT if you're drowning how can you save anyone else from drowning? The self does and should come first to the extent of having what you need but after that, enough's got to be enough but sadly many people never come to realize that.
his compassion meditation is what prayer is, as modelled by Jesus every day of his life, 'love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your mind, and love your neighbour as yourself."
You know, I think people need to learn how not to have or need or go to or speak at lectures. I mean, the man himself said he prepared between the car park and the podium (well, the chair). I guess that makes him clever, seriously... I am not being sarcastic. It seems to be a happy habit for these lecturers to say something like that these days... e.g., "I just read the spiel and I am supposed to talk about..." Maybe life is very, very ordinary... so why do we need to talk about it in so many "uni lectures"? It's like going to church to hear the same cycle of stuff over and over... sermon junkies. Seriously, save your breath! Save your time... for nothing, to do nothing, nothing is okay, emptiness (even if it is the nothingness of oneness/no-differentiation kind of nothingness/no objectivity actually)... save the electricity... peel potatoes, kiss your mother, clip your nails, brush your dog's hair... No offence! Not at all, but let it all go... stop trying... running after the pearl which is right between the eyes... right were you can't see it. ! There is no answer because there is no problem... except our projections of need, illusions... Don't try to be happy in a world in which everything fades away... THAT is the point! Everything fades away. Vanity of vanities, all is vanity... That is it! This is it! The problems are the illusions too so the answers to the illusions are illusions, nothingnesses. The craving for it all to be something more significant is the nonsense. At 66 years of age, I was saying to my self, "What was the significance I fought and "died" for (inside) so many times in life. "The science of happiness?" Are you kidding me? I know we need the waste and illusions of innovation to keep the waste of academics going, but really, it is a treadmill, isn't it? ' trouble is it is a job, and for some it has tenure... and this TED talk kind of chat with the guru on stage thing is wearing thin... Life is really a matter of "Just do it!" and if it is not there to be done, be with yourself... in silence, or worship. But the academic treadmill is a business, isn't it? also based on the illusions of silly economic constructs that do not equate with the character of things as they are? This business of academics, the industry of academics demands innovation so that means it always demands that the last innovations were, after all, inadequate and must be shown to be flawed so the new generation can be right(er) and get their credentials. This is not progress, it is the cyclic foolishness of humanity and of human effort. Positive Psych points in one important direction, but I doubt many if any are really prepared for it... oneness, actual communion, silence and the emptiness of non-objectivity where there is no movement, nothing to be said, nothing to be done... and thus all potential is before it... frightening, actually, for we who are conditioned as we are to need, must, ought and should just to maintain this kind of self, this violent distinction. We are addicted to the violence of need which is the violence of differentiation. And this kind of multipal-ism is essential to the value system underlying everything that is going on in academics no less than in Monsanto, manufacturing corporations and the egg farm down the road. What is that point beyond material (self) aggrandisement... ultimately it has something to do with "I am not"... notself... etc... anyway... The brass bugles sound... loudly... and the audiences turn up, and I too listen... but why? Well at least I am aware of this, that progress seems to be deconstruction, dismantling, building down rather than building up, adding to, fragmenting and certainly rather than running around in academic circles and cunningly finding another innovation that adds to this pointless inertia or merry-go-round-ism. Go love something, someone, some god. Stop talking. Silence. Nothingness. Peace. Live with yourself for a month.
In short, love as a theory, love as a technique, love as a science is nonsense... but perhaps it can be a product variously package and turned into a uni course... to name one industry. Yes. How come we prefer love as a theory, as a technique and as a science or a sermon to just doing love, without a word, without a reward, without a record of it?
comments are interesting. I hear echoes of biblical truths. I have seen everything that is done under the sun, and behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind. (Eccl. 1:14) Psalm 49 New American Standard Bible
The Folly of Trusting in Riches.
49 Hear this, all peoples;
Give ear, all inhabitants of the world,
2 Both low and high,
Rich and poor together.
3 My mouth will speak wisdom,
And the meditation of my heart will be understanding.
4 I will incline my ear to a proverb;
I will [a]express my riddle on the harp.
5 Why should I fear in days of adversity,
When the iniquity of my [b]foes surrounds me,
6 Even those who trust in their wealth
And boast in the abundance of their riches?
7 No man can by any means redeem his brother
Or give to God a ransom for him-
8 For the redemption of [c]his soul is costly,
And he should cease trying forever-
9 That he should live on eternally,
That he should not [d]undergo decay.
10 For he sees that even wise men die;
The stupid and the senseless alike perish
And leave their wealth to others.
11 Their [e]inner thought is that their houses are forever
And their dwelling places to all generations;
They have called their lands after their own names.
12 But man in his [f]pomp will not endure;
He is like the [g]beasts that [h]perish.
13 This is the way of those who are foolish,
And of those after them who approve their words. [i]Selah.
14 As sheep they are appointed for Sheol;
Death shall be their shepherd;
And the upright shall rule over them in the morning,
And their form shall be for ]Sheol to consume
So that they have no habitation.
15 But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol, (hell, grave)
For He will receive me. Selah.
16 Do not be afraid when a man becomes rich,
When the [o]glory of his house is increased;
17 For when he dies he will carry nothing away;
His [p]glory will not descend after him.
18 Though while he lives he congratulates [q]himself-
And though men praise you when you do well for yourself-
19 [r]He shall go to the generation of his fathers;
They will never see the light.
20 Man in his [s]pomp, yet without understanding,
Is like the [t]beasts that [u]perish.
Yes Fran. That's it, and it is not negation in the sense of negative despair, it is a window on being rather than the vain striving to become. It is also a declaration of what is done, finished, of what is to be rested in. It is in this sense that I also lament religion as an industry, the Gospel as an industry and Christ as a missionary. I think it is about seeing, not even reforming as an effort. Thanks for sharing.
John Cahill TRUTH
Blah blah blah
I found nothing wrong with what he had to say.
as a psychologist, i don't agree with his definition of a psych.
Of course ...you're disconnected ...stuck in your head
haha, high priest of woe, haha
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