Word: shahar
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Although his 2002 book, “The Question of Happiness,” was initially not very popular, Lecturer on Psychology Tal D. Ben-Shahar ’96 told his student Saviz Sepah ’06 that if it were truly a good book, its time would eventually come and more people would read...
Four years after Ben-Shahar self-released his book via iUniverse, he is teaching the largest course on campus and his agent is looking for a trade publisher to reprint “The Question of Happiness.” His class, Psychology 1508, “The Psychology of Leadership,” boasts an enrollment of 842 students...
While the College and the UC struggle with the details of social programming, they would do well to consider some of the principles espoused in this semester’s popular Positive Psychology course. Lecturer on Psychology Tal D. Ben-Shahar ’96 speaks directly to the incapacitating perfectionism on campus with simple, but powerful ideas like “learn to fail or fail to learn.” Over 800 Harvard undergrads are actively learning how to give themselves the “permission to be human,” how to pursue excellence amidst...
...Harvard lies in students’ attitudes, not in the availability of events. Increasing the number of campus-wide events is hardly the solution to students’ dissatisfaction with campus social–life. What we need is not to do more but to do less. As Ben-Shahar mentions in his class, quantity of activities affects quality of life...
...Positive Psych kids any happier? Students say they are flying high after spending a semester learning techniques for positive living—strategies for dealing with procrastination, for coping with stressful situations, and for stepping out of their comfort zones—with Lecturer on Psychology Tal D. Ben-Shahar ’96, affectionately know to his students as “Tal.” “He says a lot of things that some people find cliché, or people thought that he was preaching to us a bit, but if you try them out they...