Martin Seligman's TED Talk

Susan Wolf addresses these questions an aim to bring out the distinctive characteristics of the reasons and motives that give our lives meaning. Wolf claims that "meaningful lives are laws of active engagement and projects of worth" (Wolf, 206). Suggesting that when a person is actively engaged in anything they feel alive and life is more worth living. Nevertheless, Wolf explains that neither religion or science is sufficient for leading a meaningful life, claiming that a life of passion could corrupt the pursuit of happiness if you decide to dedicate your life to how you feel. Suggesting that working toward some goal that is substantial than yourself, can be hard work if you don 't have any passion or connection to it. According to Wolf, the subjective element is necessary for a meaningful life and arises from active engagement in some activity that one loves. In addition, the passive attachment to objectively valuable things are not sufficient for meaning. The feeling of fulfillment originates when “one is doing what one loves, or when one is engaging in activities by which one is gripped or excited” (Wolf, 207).

Susan wolf interprets a meaningful life as one that has within the basis of an affirmative answer to the basis for an affirmative answer to the needs or belonging that are characteristically described as needs of meaning. She described meaningful lives as lives of active engagement in project worth. Which she divided into groups, first is ‘’active engagement’’ and project worth.

In life, there are many ways you can live, however, the manner in which you live is your choice. In most peoples’ lives, they want to leave this world and say that they were happy and enjoyed every single moment of it. People feel like if they lived a happy life, then that is all that matters. But what if life has more to do than just being happy, what if it was meant for you to change the world or the lives of others? If you changed the life of another person and made them happy, you made a difference. A happy life is a good one, but a meaningful life is fruitful.

The Ted Talk By Isacc Lidsky is an interesting speech that convey a very important message. Lidsky starts his argument with a fascinated story of a little girl talking with her dad about the gold fish. Lidsky uses this story to tell his experience in a very rhythmic way of presenting. As he says that the father of the little girl, explain that the fishes "swims backwards by wagging his head" to his little girl. Lidsky uses this phrase to show the matter of factly. This is a common fact that everyone knows that fish can not swim backwards and and absolutely not by wagging their heads. however the little girl accepted because her father told her. Lidsky uses this story to clear his point and he makes a rhythmic and powerful analogy that, people

Susan wolf interprets a meaningful life as one that has within the basis of an affirmative answer to the basis for an affirmative answer to the needs or belonging that are characteristically described as needs of meaning. She described meaningful lives as lives of active engagement in project worth. Which she divided into groups, first is ‘’active engagement’’ and project worth.

Jane McGonigal said "I'm gonna try to increase the lifespan of everyone in this room by 7 1/2 minutes....LITERALLY!!". I was already smiling waiting for her to get to the punchline, because I figured this had to be apart of a joke."LITERALLY, YOU WILL LIVE 7 AND 1/2 MINUTES LONGER THAN YOU WOULD HAVE OTHERWISE JUST BECAUSE YOU WATCHED THIS TALK". Not hearing her full speech I pre judged her and thought she was a very arrogant person. From the beginning, I couldn't tell her talk was going to be about a video game. I could imagine hearing magicians like Whodini or David Copperfield making such bold claims then following with some magic trick to entertain their audiences. She also said she had the math data to back up her claim so my second thought was maybe she's a

What makes life meaningful? It is not about having a successful career, being powerful, or owning the most expensive things. It is about building true relationship and leaving a long-lasting impression to family and friends. Many writers throughout history have warned readers about how emphasis on materialistic things can harm relationship. Instead of being absorbed in keeping up with wealth and social status, making long lasting connection with surrounding people is what makes life meaningful.

Meaningful to me is creating a positive outcome in your life and the lives of others, it is defined as having a serious, important, or useful quality or purpose. But what constitutes a meaningful life? I believe that all life has meaning, whether on a small or large scale. We use life to learn. To learn what to do, what not do, and to learn from others, and that all has meaning.

The Ted Talk by Sherry Turkle, "Alone Together" embraces a strong dependency of modern day technology, and it's power to replace human contact with the "Illusion of companionship". With a respected background, a degree in Psychology and extensive research, Sherry Turkle emphasizes just how much we're letting technology take us to a place we do not want to go. It is one thing to reflect upon a professional, and another thing to adopt imagery in personal lyrical emotion. The two videos that grasped my attention were Gary Turk's "Look up" and Prince EA's "Autocorrect Humanity." Both videos display a lot of similarities, such as rhymes, an emotional connection, and expressing the overall picture of putting down your phone, but Gary Turks "Look Up" has made a larger impact of the two. The video "Look Up" has a significantly powerful, and emotional appeal to it and the message it conveys.

Dan Gilbert, a Psychology professor at Harvard University, begins his TED Talk by telling the audience about the development of the prefrontal cortex in the human brain, calling it an “experience simulator”. Gilbert then discloses more information about the prefrontal cortex to the viewers and elaborates on its flaws, focusing on how humans often misjudge how happy they would be in several circumstances. The example that Gilbert utilises to demonstrate the human brain’s inability to predict happiness is, if given a choice, would the average human be happier winning the lottery or losing his or her legs. Naturally, one would assume that winning the lottery would make a person happier in the long term; however, people reported being equally

Although the specialization of positive psychology has only been researched and practices since 1998, the study of happiness connects with the work of Maslow, Rogers, and Fromm. The roots of this specialization came from Martin Seligman who chose the theme the president of the American Psychological Association in the late 1990’s. Seligman was an avid student of Maslow’s work and realized that life cannot be full circle unless the person has a balance lives with happiness. During his time as president, Seligman wrote a book entitled, “Authentic Happiness” in which he describes a reality that finds most if not all psychological professionals focusing on mental illness. Seligman (1998) suggests that psychologist works to address the client’s

In this week’s Ted Talk, Patricia Kuhl helped us understand the importance of early development in language. She explained that babies are like little geniuses when it comes to acquiring language. However, there is a critical period for learning it since after the age of seven, the same ability starts to decline. To investigate more about how sounds are learned, Kuhl and colleagues use a technique in which a baby is trained to turn their heads after hearing different sounds, showing that they can discriminate any sound even from different languages.

Another point Seligman makes about is how not having positive interventions led to positive psychology. He goes on to say that positive psychology has three main aims. The first aim is psychology should be just as concerned with strength as with weakness. Next, it should be just as interested in building the best things in life as in repairing the worst. Lastly, it should be just as concerned with making the lives of normal people fulfilling and with nurturing high talent as with healing pathology.

Music has had a huge impact in my life and how I handle myself in certain situation. For example, after a terrible end to a three year relationship, I felt lost confused on what love was and how I felt about everyone who I met through out the relationship. After a couple of months, I went out with a friend and fell in love with beautiful women, but the women moving to the rhythm and I thought to myself it wasn’t the women I fell in love with Music was my first actual love. Thus, Music assisted me on regaining myself confidence, and what video explains more on the medical level.

The ted talk “The Linguistic Genius of Babies” by Kuhl (2010) tells about babies are genius on language learning, and shows some results of research as proof of this idea. The article “Learning a Language as an Adult” by Pakenham, McEntire, and Williams (2013) shows an idea about the “critical period hypothesis”, children during this period learn much better than people older than this age, especially in pronunciation, because their brain activities are different than adults during this time. Personally, I totally believe the idea of children younger learn better, because the scientific research and data are shown to audiences, and they are persuasive enough. And I do see proof in my life, like four of my Korean friends who came China around