期末考试复习参考资料

2014－2月至2014-6月

Happier: Learn the Secrets to Daily Joy and Lasting Fulfillment

—— Tal Ben-Shahar Warm-up questions

1.Do you agree to the words by Anne Frank –"We all live with the objective of being

happy; our lives are all different and yet the same. "?

2.Do you think it is necessary to ask questions?

3.How do you understand the "the question of questions"?

4.What's the ultimate currency in Tal's opinion?

5.At what point is the healthy median located?

6.Why is the interest in the study of happiness growing?

7.Is the study of happiness within the limit of a certain group of population or the only

phenomenon in the western world?

8.Whom in the eastern culture was quoted to illustrate the phenomenon that the study of

happiness stretches from ancient times to the present and all over the world?

9.What’s the concept of afterlife?

10.What causes do you think might be the answer to the question: If we so rich, why aren’t

we happy?

Task

Please discuss the paradox- that money seems to have bought us happiness in

your group and then have one member to be the reprehensive to make a report.

Preface：Why Positive Psychology

Questions （X~XIV)

1. What does positive psychology concern about?

2. Who is Martin Seligman?

3. Why is it said that some steps to happiness, secrets of success, or ways to find your

perfect over are usually empty promises?

4. What does it mean "I would not give a fig for the simplicity on this side of complexity,

but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity." by Oliver

Wendell Holmes?

5. How do you understand the following saying-―Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.‖

~Leonardo DaVinci

6. Why should reflection and action be included in Tal's requirement?

7. What does "Time-In" and "Time-Out" mean?

8. What is the purpose for "Time-Ins" ?

Chapter 1 (P.3~8)

The Question of Happiness

Questions:

1. Can you explain your understanding of the Albert Einstein's saying-"In the

middle of difficulty lies opportunity"? （P.3）

2. Why did Tal share stories about his winning experience in his childhood

and youth with us? And what can you learn from his stories?（P.3）

3. Please explain how you understand the following sentence?（P.4）

"The tears of joy shed only hours earlier turned to tears of pain and helplessness."

4. Let's follow the Time-In on P.4.

5. Can you find out some clues why Tal changed his major from natural science to

humanities? (P. 5)

6. How can you understand the saying ——―The question of questions‖？

(1) What kind of questions might be good questions?

(2) How can you illustrate "A question begins a quest"?

(3) Pathogenic model（致病模态）and salutogenic model (有益健康模态）

(4）salutogenises (健康本源学）

7. Do you agreement to the belief—no pain, no gain? Why? (P. 5)

8. What do you think happiness really is?

(1) an emotion

(2) the same as pleasure

(3) the absence of pain

9. Let's follow the Time-In instruction again.

(1) How would you define happiness?

(2) What does happiness mean to you?

10. What does the sentence, "These general principles are certainly not a panacea" imply?

11. What does a "closed question "mean?

12. What 's your explanation for your understanding of the transition from "Am I happy"

to "How can I become happier？"

13. . Why is it suggested that rituals should be created? (P. 8)

14. Do you agree to the belief that ritualistic behavior distracts from spontaneity? Why?

15. Please make a comment on "Paradoxically, the routine frees them up to be creative and

spontaneous".

16. Can you write down at least five things that make you happy today now?

Chapter 1 (P.8~11)

The Question of Happiness ——Exercises

Questions:

1.Why is it suggested that rituals should be created? (P. 8)

Translation task P. 9

1）As Tony Schwartz says, ―Incremental change is better than ambitious failure.…

Success feeds on itself.‖

2）― We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.‖

—— Aristotle