哈佛大学幸福课课件1504-07_ppt.ppt

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * The 5-minute take off Reward yourself Go public The team approach Goals, plans, lists Permission to re-create Overcoming Procrastination Time Out! “In a recent national survey of 13,500 college students, nearly 45 percent reported being so depressed that they had difficulty functioning, and 94 percent reported feeling overwhelmed by everything they had to do.” Richard Kadison Too much to do Stress (feeling Overwhelmed) Depression “In a recent national survey of 13,500 college students, nearly 45 percent reported being so depressed that they had difficulty functioning, and 94 percent reported feeling overwhelmed by everything they had to do.” Richard Kadison Too much to do Stress (feeling Overwhelmed) Depression TBD: Too Busy Disorder (DeGenerous, 2003) Time Out! Do less, not more Simplify! “Love and sex are affected negatively by stress… If we can help people to simplify their lives, thus reducing their stress levels, it is very likely that people’s relationships would be enriched greatly. Moreover, the positive aspects of their lives would be enriched accordingly.” Susan Clyde Hendrick (2002) Do less, not more Quantity affects quality Say “yes” by saying “no” Optimum levels of simplicity Simplify! “Work expands to fill the time available for its completion.” Cyril Northcote Parkinson “I can do a year’s work in nine months, but not in twelve.” JP Morgan “Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen... In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and the thousand-and-one items to be allowed for, that a man has to live, if he would not founder and go the bottom and not make his port at all, by dead reckoning, and he must be a great calculator indeed who succeeds. Simplify. Simplify .”