As human beings we are naturally wired to seek happiness wherever we can find it. When we don’t, we may enter a stage of anger, anxiety, or distress. That’s why it is our personal goal to look for happiness and preserve it once we acquire it. Many have explored ways to find what triggers this feeling of “happiness” and what we can do to keep it; nonetheless, the evidence found is hardly sufficient to make a public statement on how to find happiness. For this reason, most of the time we speculate
As human beings we are naturally wired to seek happiness wherever we can find it. When we don’t, we may enter a stage of anger, anxiety, or distress. That’s why it is our personal goal to look for happiness and preserve it once we acquire it. Many have explored ways to find what triggers this feeling of “happiness” and what we can do to keep it; nonetheless, the evidence found is hardly sufficient to make a public statement on how to find happiness. For this reason, most of the time we speculate
The American Dream is achievable depending on your perspective and/or attitude. One person can look at the glass as half full, or half empty. Throughout The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gatsby is not able to achieve his dream while Sofia, from the book How the García Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez, was able to. It all depended on how they looked upon achieving their goal. In the end, the American dream is to be surrounded by what makes you happy and what you have achieved. Sofia
positive or good. A widely used idiom for explaining optimism over pessimism, in a simplified manner is by illustrating the example of a glass with water at the half point. In this specific scenario, an optimistic person is said to observe the glass as half full because of his optimistic character, whereas a pessimistic individual, sees the glass as half empty, because of their pessimistic attitude. The term was derived from the Latin word optimum, meaning ‘the best’. “Research shows that optimism
forward, your goals will inevitably change and your definition of success and happiness changes with them. It may be time to take a look at your goals and redefine them for a happy ending. Ask yourself what you want to accomplish. Most people envision a far-off future where they’re doing exactly what they want, have what they want, and live the way they want. It’s all kind of fuzzy, with vague notions of future happiness hinging on retirement in a sunny place where it never rains. The reality
versus pessimism is a glass with water at the halfway point, where the optimist is said to see the glass as half full, but the pessimist sees the glass as half empty. Optimists tend to see adversity as temporary; more specifically they view the obstacle as limited to the situation and not generalized. 1) How does the personality trait develop in humans? Where does it appear to come from? (20 pts) According to Alan Carr, author of Positive Psychology: The Science of Happiness and Human Strengths,
with a good memory or simply for people who have had a shitty day to drown their sorrows and find happiness at the end of a bottle, this was not one of those bars. This was a bar where you could always find a good friend in the form of the easy going bartender and owner of the small pub. No one really knows where this man came from, he seemed to have come out of nowhere bringing alcohol and happiness to the customers. He was always there to give a mug of beer and good atmosphere making the bar visitors
resulting moral judgment. Using Utilitarianism, we came to the conclusion that the maximum benefits and greatest happiness for all involved while reducing the suffering and negative aspects allowed us to come to the moral judgment. Utilitarianism has a few key concepts to take into consideration when coming to the conclusion. These concepts include pain, suffering, pleasure, utility, happiness and consequentialism. Even if this is not a perfect solution, each of these can be weighed and in doing so
example or being extraversion. Extraversion can be simply described as someone who is a risk taker, someone who is the party animal and exciting to be around. It is said that, “it is strongly linked to a number of important job-related variables of happiness at work”( Wood et al, 2014). The opposite of this would be someone who chooses to stay home and study over going out and having fun. They aren’t risk takers and they wouldn’t be the life of the party. I can relate to this dimension because I am always
Although Candide is highly fond of Pangloss, he has a very difficult time believing in the same beliefs as him. During all the hardships Candide and Pangloss endure together, Pangloss is always the one looking at the glass half full and Candide is the one looking at the glass half empty. This is a reoccurring theme throughout the whole story. At the beginning of the story, Candide truly admires Pangloss’s optimism for the world and believes he is the greatest philosopher there was. However, as Candide