To be sure, no lesson provides an authenticity and durability as that gained through first-hand experience. However, if the world's destiny hinged upon the inevitability of personal experience learned through tangible performance, there would undoubtedly be a continuous recycling of mistakes, misadventures, and catastrophes throughout history. As a result, societal advancement would be limited to the knowledge gained and exercised in a lifetime. Imagine every generation being left to repeat essentially the same process in a perpetual state of affairs. In the 1993 movie Groundhog Day, the protagonist (Bill Murray) had to repeat the same day over again, scores of times, in order to gain enough information to break out of an inexplicable cycle…
Imagine your life as an “eternal Hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again” . Philosopher Nietzsche explained on the idea and viewed life as a reoccurrence. He had a theory that all events in your lifetime will reoccur again and again. The film Groundhog Day as a similar event happened to the main character Phil where he is reliving the same day over and over. In my essay I will explain the similar and differences from Nietzsche eternal return and the film Groundhog Day and will as the virtue ethics from Aristotle.…
Julie Beck interviews Dr. Rick Hanson, a neuropsychologist, about ways in which people can adopt a happy lifestyle. The first point explained by Dr. Henson is that our brains tend to focus on the negative, which leaves people stressed and unhappy. Dr. Hanson reasons that people need to take positive experiences seriously. In other words, he wants people to “sink positive experiences” deep in people’s brains. Dr. Henson calls this concept “taking in the good.” If people want to achieve this mindset, first they have get rid of positive thinking and adopt clear thinking, which put it briefly means to take into account positive and negative experiences. By relating a little story of evolution, Dr. Hanson arrives to the conclusion that positive…
If you think about it, many other people have a different society than others. These societies have positive attributes and negative ones as well. In the novel “The Outsiders” by S.E. Hinton, the clip “On the Road: Middle School Football” with Steve Hartman; the poem “The World Is Not a Pleasant Place to Be” by Nikki Giovanni, it gives us positive information about Ponyboy’s society, Keith’s society; the society described in the poem. And knowing how their society is positive might change the way you think forever.…
In a society that demands conformity individuals always suffer. Individuals dying not having happiness and lying is a massive reason as to why individuals are always suffering. In the year of wonders the plague is the main reason why everyone suffers. There’s really no happiness around as individuals have to focus more on surviving the plague rather than their own happiness and well-being. There are many examples during years of wonders where this is quite evident. From “The memories of happiness are fleeting things, reflections in a stream, glimpsed all broken for a second and then swept away in the current of grief that is our life now.” (1.1.13) to “Do we not have suffering enough in this village? Is there not Death enough here for you all that you bring the crime of murder amongst us as well?” (2.5.50) to “It seemed as if the flesh inside of him was dying while he yet breathed, the putrefying meat pushing and bursting its way out of his failing body.” (2.5.17) it is quite evident that this town suffers and it really all leads to the current events happening and the things that people are going through. In the crucible having happiness is also a task, there are a few different reasons as to why however, it’s more to do with people’s actions that causes all this and eventually also results in death.…
Both negative and positive experiences shape a person to be who he or she is. However, the impacts of these two experiences are debated. Some people would argue that negative experiences have a harmful effect on how individuals become better people in life. They may become jaded and forfeit their right to optimism. However, negative experiences actually have a more positive impact than positive experiences on how people become better because those experiences can be reflected upon and one can learn and change to develop and argue for morally right positions, such as fighting for the right to a proper education, freedom to participate in group activities regardless of the person, and protection from corrupt, evil humans.…
When someone goes through many situations in life, it is very difficult to stay the same throughout that time period. Drastic measures can be challenging. Sometimes people have to push themselves to become more than they need to be- It doesn’t even have to be negative. Positive moments can influence a person’s character immensely.…
Happiness is a quality that outweighs almost all others. Have one take wit, and put it on a scale. It would be oddly light. Take bravery, or sincerity. These qualities are much more substantial, but nothing can add up to what positivity and optimism can do to one’s life. Positivity is a trait that’s passed through people spiritually, and in everyday conversation. Anne Frank is a well known exemplar. She used her optimism to change the lives of the people around her. Now, one may think that remaining happy in tough situations is nearly impossible, or unimportant considering other situations. Nevertheless, plenty of scientific evidence, historical evidence, and common sense points to the truth. Remaining positive in any conflict will benefit…
I had always been an optimistic individual and tended to lean towards the “bright side” to every situation. I realized that I was responsible for my own happiness and dwelling on the negatives would only serve to cut down on my happiness and limit the scope of my experiences.…
Can also affect our experiences within our society because it is more than merely a…
The things that could affect others could change their life and their levels of happiness. It could also eliminate the suffering of someone in the future if a person considers all point of views for consequences. All people and happiness should be treated equally and with respect when in doubt for how well off they are. Considerations of future and present consequences will help flourish all happiness.…
There is this idea of positive psychology, which can be described as the study of the factors that produce and nurture positive emotion (Hatcher, 1). The concept of positive psychology is easiest to use in groups because it offers a number of “homework” exercises that can be completed outside of the group. By putting inmates into groups of 5-9, psychologists can start to instill positive emotions in inmates. Because of the abundance of negative feelings in prison, it makes sense that men who are incarcerated would welcome an opportunity to experience positive emotions. In the groups, the psychologists start by measuring positive and negative moods over the course of the group, and have in each group found an increase in positive moods and a decrease in negative moods from week to week.…
According to The Science of Inside Out a persons Sadness pulls others in to comfort and help (Dachner Keltner & Ekman.) For example, when Riley runs away from home, she returns home and hugs her parents in comfort from Sadness and Anger. Sadness must be realized so that positivity can be produced. Riley did lose friends, a home, and her childhood, despite this she gained new friends, a new home, and a new idenitity and personality. From Sadness, come…
Positive choices people make don’t just affect them. It could be inspiring to people that they do not even know. Queen Latifah for instance in her biography Ladies first Revelations of a Strong Woman, chose to make her music positive and to help and empower women by letting them know that whatever they have been through or where they came from, that they are “Queens” (p. 35) Women who have that positive outlook make positive choices, and it makes them feel good and confident. Some people have to change their identity to feel better about themselves. For instance, taking hormonal drugs to change their sex, and other people temporarily change their identity to get that self esteem they never had. Like Lucy Grealy in book Masks, she unfortunately lost half her jaw due to Ewing Sarcoma. (p 69-70) One Halloween when Lucy was in sixth grade, she decided she was well enough to go trick or treating and her mother thought on an Eskimo costume so Lucy put a scarf around her face and starting going throughout the neighborhood and she realized she felt so good because no one could see her face, she felt such freedom. But at the end of the day Lucy felt relieved being herself without the scarf because she felt no connection with that kind of happiness after living so many years sad and depressed.…
Those people we find ourselves around have the biggest impact on effecting on the outcome of our optimism. I was lucky enough to have a support system there to help build my roots in optimism. Optimism has helped me to achieve a sense of comfort and overcome the challenges I faced as an impressionable child. But what about the ones whose roots are corrupted by the fruits of pessimism; what if I had never felt the support and comfort that has guided me to overcome my past problems.…