I really love watching ted.com!
I just finished re-watching a video by Dan Gilbert of Harvard about happiness.
He talked about synthesized happiness. He gave evidence of when a person has an event in their life that they will synthesize happiness in consequence. And the synthesized happiness can happen whether the precipitating event is positive or negative.
I am thinking of certain non-revocable choices in my life. One biggie is that I decided to teach elementary and to stick with it for SOOOOOO many years.
In the past two years, I have looked upon my teaching career with a modicum of regret. By doing that I have denied myself many of the things in life that I really wanted. I have denied myself of happiness.
However, I do have the choice to respond to my past career with happiness. Though I am not sure how that is done, I will think long and hard about how to make that happen. I just bought Dan Gilbert's book, Stumbling on Happiness. I am looking forward to reading it.
And if Dan Gilbert ever reads my blog, I must say, "Dan, I think that you are really cute!" LOL
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