哈佛幸福课 课件 1504 05 change.ppt

Permanent Change From Self Discipline to Rituals Increases productivity and creativity 30 days to a new ritual Introduce one or two rituals at a time “Incremental change is better than ambitious failure.... Success feeds on itself.” Loehr and Schwartz “There isn’t anything that isn’t made easier through constant familiarity and training. Through training we can change; we can transform ourselves.” Dalai Lama Cognition: Thoughts Create Worlds Interpretation as neural pathway The world according to the fault-finder The (same) world according to the merit-finder The identical twins (revisited) Changing our interpretation style takes time Cognitive Reconstruction Revisited Challenge or threat (Tomaka et al., 1997) Arousal as euphoria or anger (Schachter Singer, 1962) Cooperation or competition (Ross Samuels, 1993) Volunteering as privilege or duty (Lareau, 2004) Relationships about being known or being validated (Schnarch, 1997) Failure as opportunity or disaster Work as exercise or chore (Crum Langer, 2007) Examples of Cognitive Reconstruction The Creative Process preparation—immersion incubation—idle time Acute Change: The Eureka Experience I can do a year’s work in nine months, but not in twelve. JP Morgan “You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, when you don’t know what was in the newspapers that morning, you don’t know who your friends are, you don’t know what you owe anybody, you don’t know what anybody owes to you. This is a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be. This is the place of creative incubation. At first, you may find that nothing happens there. But if you have [such] a sacred place and use it, something eventually will happen.” Joseph Campbell The Creative Process preparation—immersion incubation—idle time eureka—insight evaluation—reality test elaboration—coherence Acute Change: The Eureka Experience Coping through writing (Pennebaker, 1997) Comb