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Positive-Psychology哈佛幸福课英文字幕 PAGE 180 - Positive Psychology – Lecture 1 Tal Ben-Shahar Hi Good morning. Its wonderful to be back here. Wonderful to see you here. Im teaching this class because I wish a class like this had been taught when I was sitting in your seat as an undergrad here. This does not mean it is a class you wish to be taught, nor does it mean that it is the right class for you. But I hope to doing the next couple of lectures is giving you an idea what this class is about so that you can decide whether or not it is for you. I came here in 1992 And then I had a mini epiphany half way through my sophomore year. I realized that I was in a wonderful place with wonderful students around me, wonderful teachers. I was doing well academically. I was doing well in athletics. I was playing squash at that time. I was doing well socially. Everything was going well.Except for the fact. That I was unhappy. And I didnt understand why. It was then in a matter of moments, that I decided that I had to find out why and become happier.And that was when I switched my concentration from computer science to understand why. They wanted to understand this phenomenon that here you have a class, thats larger than Introduction to Economics. How could that be? So I was invited by the media for interviews, whether it was newspapers, radio, television. And I started to notice a pattern during those interviews. So I would walk into the interview. We would have the interview. And afterwards, the producer or the interviewer would walk me out and say something to the effects of well thank you Tal for the interview. But you know I expected you to be different.And I would ask, as nonchalant as I could of course. I didnt really care but had to ask anyway, how different? And they would say, Well you know, we expected you to be more outgoing. Next interview, the end of the interview, same thing. Thank you for doing the interview. But you know Tal, I expected you to be different. And on