Five Strengths Of Positive Psychology
Felicity Mensah-Bonsu
Positive Psychology
September 24th, 2016
My Mini Project
The mini projects we started on the past week were all focused on one common hypothesis. The hypothesis being “Utilizing strengths can enhance interpersonal relationships or interpersonal skills”. As the projects commenced we created them with the hypothesis in mind. To start off the project I took the character strength inventory survey on the VIA institute of chartered website which listed my top strengths to be perspective wisdom, caution, honesty, social intelligence, and finally modesty. Out of the list of five strengths i focused on honesty for my mini project. Honesty, defined by website, was described as an honest person who spoke the truth and lived …show more content…
By opening up and being vulnerable, those in my life were able to feel that vulnerability and reciprocate what i was feeling. I was able to “feel what others feel, to know another person’s experience” (Weil 2011). By opening myself up to people like my close friends i was able to actually get an idea of how they were feeling. Not to just come to the conclusion that they may have been sad but to actually get the feeling of the real impact that experience had given them and be able to correctly comfort them when they needed me which is that sense of compassion to their situation. With these new learned traits i was able to provide for myself a stronger set of community and social bonding (Weil 2011) that i didn’t have before that moment. Not only with that friend but with my roommate and my mother as …show more content…
Until i opened up, truly opened up, i had never felt like i had any type of community in my life that was there for me. After the project that idea really changed for me. I started noticing that my interactions with those in my life and those that weren't had gotten easier. I had found a sense of happiness that i didn’t think was possible under all my depression and it made me see that what i had been thinking before wasn’t an accurate portrayal of how everything actually was in my life. In the future there are numerous ways i would further enhance my relationship skills. I would work on my honesty more often, when it came to topics that i actually felt strongly about i would try to actually to say what i’m thinking and not hold my tongue because there have been times where i’ve been told i know a lot about certain things. Try to hone in on my ability to be cautious of those around me or even try out my humility. I would work on opening myself up to the community and happiness around me instead of blocking myself from it.
References
Character Strengths, Personal Development: VIA Character. (2016). Latest News:. Retrieved September 25, 2016, from http://www.viacharacter.org/www/
Weil, A. (2011). Spontaneous Happiness. New York, NY: Little Brown and
Positive Psychology
September 24th, 2016
My Mini Project
The mini projects we started on the past week were all focused on one common hypothesis. The hypothesis being “Utilizing strengths can enhance interpersonal relationships or interpersonal skills”. As the projects commenced we created them with the hypothesis in mind. To start off the project I took the character strength inventory survey on the VIA institute of chartered website which listed my top strengths to be perspective wisdom, caution, honesty, social intelligence, and finally modesty. Out of the list of five strengths i focused on honesty for my mini project. Honesty, defined by website, was described as an honest person who spoke the truth and lived …show more content…
By opening up and being vulnerable, those in my life were able to feel that vulnerability and reciprocate what i was feeling. I was able to “feel what others feel, to know another person’s experience” (Weil 2011). By opening myself up to people like my close friends i was able to actually get an idea of how they were feeling. Not to just come to the conclusion that they may have been sad but to actually get the feeling of the real impact that experience had given them and be able to correctly comfort them when they needed me which is that sense of compassion to their situation. With these new learned traits i was able to provide for myself a stronger set of community and social bonding (Weil 2011) that i didn’t have before that moment. Not only with that friend but with my roommate and my mother as …show more content…
Until i opened up, truly opened up, i had never felt like i had any type of community in my life that was there for me. After the project that idea really changed for me. I started noticing that my interactions with those in my life and those that weren't had gotten easier. I had found a sense of happiness that i didn’t think was possible under all my depression and it made me see that what i had been thinking before wasn’t an accurate portrayal of how everything actually was in my life. In the future there are numerous ways i would further enhance my relationship skills. I would work on my honesty more often, when it came to topics that i actually felt strongly about i would try to actually to say what i’m thinking and not hold my tongue because there have been times where i’ve been told i know a lot about certain things. Try to hone in on my ability to be cautious of those around me or even try out my humility. I would work on opening myself up to the community and happiness around me instead of blocking myself from it.
References
Character Strengths, Personal Development: VIA Character. (2016). Latest News:. Retrieved September 25, 2016, from http://www.viacharacter.org/www/
Weil, A. (2011). Spontaneous Happiness. New York, NY: Little Brown and