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...touch with Psychology 1504: Positive Psychology lecturer Tal Ben-Shahar to get some happiness tips for former tennis partner and soon-to-be ex-University President Lawrence H. Summers. Ben-Shahar suggests a three-prong approach to beating the resignation blues. 1) “He will likely be feeling upset, disappointed and sad. He should give himself permission to be human—to experience whatever he is experiencing and accept it as natural and human,” says Ben-Shahar. 2) Ben-Shahar recommends that Summers should study Harvard psychology Professor Daniel...
...plenty of rigor in my classes at Harvard, but the lack of rigor cited in Lecturer Tal Ben-Shahar’s classes mask the fact that what he is imparting—quite successfully—could be the most important takeaway in students’ years on-campus. If they can walk away understanding that gratitude is the character strength most closely associated with happiness, or that having a meaningful social circle is one of the best predictors of aging well, they will not only change their lives, but they will “pay it forward?...
...taught English to the adolescent Strokes and yoga to Psychology 1504, “Positive Psychology” lecturer Tal Ben-Shahar ’96. Yet Positive Psychology teaching fellow (TF) Deborah R. Cohen ’91 took only one psychology class while an undergraduate at Harvard. “I found the prospect of psychology so depressing,” Cohen says. “I took ‘States of Adolescent Adjustment’ spring of my freshman year and it talked about today’s adolescent eating disorders and today?...
...risk of sounding cliché,” Perrotti says, “Tal really walks the talk. He’s a model of positive psychology...
...Tal wasn’t born walking. It wasn’t until 1992, when he moved to America from his home in Israel, that his optimistic philosophy really started to take shape...