Friday, January 16th

Objectives:

• Define success for yourself
• Defend your stance on the influence of technology on Gen Y's quality of lives.
• Consider multiple perspectives on happiness  and understand the field of positive psychology

AGENDA
1. Get out your journal 6 for on-time credit
2.  JOURNAL #7: Listen to Alain de Bottom's Success Podcast: "What's a Kinder Way to Frame Success?"

Context to Alain de Bottom:

• Alain de Botton is a Swiss/British writer, philosopher, television presenter and entrepreneur, resident in the United Kingdom.
  
• Frenetic: fast and energetic in a rather wild and uncontrolled way.
  
  

Respond to these three questions

1. While listening, take notes on Alain's main points about mainstream definitions of success compared to how he suggests we should redefine success on our own terms.

2.  Which of the podcasts most connected with you?

3. If you had to distill your own definition of success into a "question- title" for this podcast series (like these examples) what would it be? WHY?  Explain your title.

For your reference- brief summaries of main points of each podcast:

• Tony Robbins - don't let your story define you, follow your passion as drive is the key to success
  
  
• Angela Duckworth- grit is the key to success, growth mindset helps one have grit
  
  
• Ron Gutman- Smiling makes one appear more successful and there is a correlation between one's smile and one's success in life
  
  
• Mike Rowe- Don't follow your passion if it makes you unhappy; ideal is to blend what makes you happy with what makes money; people with dirty jobs are perhaps the most successful

• Alain de Bottom-  Our current definition of successful sets people up as winners or losers so we should redefine success in a way that is kinder and more compassionate.  You can't be successful in all realms of our lives.  You have to make  a choice between being successful in work or life.  We must make a choice as to in which realm of our life we want to be successful. It is a personal choice-- must decide for yourself.  There shouldn't be a one-size fits all definition of success. 

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3. JOURNAL #8 Notes on the POWERPOINT ON POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY
Link to "The Lesson of the Moth"

Today's Lesson Objective:

• Consider multiple perspectives on happiness and understand, broadly, the field of positive psychology

INSTRUCTIONS FOR ABSENT STUDENTS:
Journal #8 is happening today.  If you miss class, you need to make it up.   Journal #8 requires you take "Cornell notes" on my power point. Please go through all of the powerpoint, watch the video (we didn't get to the second video on Gratitude) linked in it, However, we did not get to the poem, "lesson of the moth" and will cover that tomorrow. 

Resources for Journal #8

• POWERPOINT ON POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY AND LESSON OF MOTH 
  
• Link to "The Lesson of the Moth"
  
• JOURNAL ASSIGNMENT ON GRATITUDE:  Due Tuesday, January 27th