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Informationen zum Autor Kyhl Lyndgaard, Ph.D.is visiting assistant professor of environmental studies and director of the writing center at the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University. Klappentext Teaching What Matters is a comprehensive guidebook distilling that course with emerging research in the science of happiness and altruism. Zusammenfassung Teaching What Matters is a comprehensive guidebook distilling that course with emerging research in the science of happiness and altruism. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Introduction Chapter 1: An Invitation to Teach What Matters Chapter 2: Redefining Success Precept #1: In order to live a successful life, we must figure out what it means to get a life. Precept #2: Money, as a marker of success, buys happiness just not in the ways we think it does. Precept #3: Keep it real. Develop an inner integrity to live successfully Precept #4: Creating and committing to meaningful life goals liberate us from the tyranny of passive living. Chapter 3: Happiness as an Inside Job. Developing emotional courage, befriending difficult emotions, cultivating positive emotions, optimism and an attitude of gratitude. Precept #5: To be human is to be emotional, so befriend your emotions. Precept #6: Let positivity reign. Cultivate positivity, positive emotions and optimism. Chapter 4: It's About Time: Giving Some Intention to Our Attention Precept #7: Maximize aliveness by examining your relationship with time. Precept #8: Exploring mindfulness helps to better understand the anatomy of the present and calmness in those moments. Precept #9: Savor more and improve your relationship with time. Precept #10: Redefine your relationship with time by rediscovering playfulness and flow. Chapter 5: The Heart of Altruism: Compassion, Human Goodness, and Helping Others. Precept #11: The world is not broken. There is another side to human nature. One that is constructive, benevolent, and good. Precept #12: Heroism is always accessible and able to be chosen. We are all heroes in waiting. Precept #13: In search of the antecedents of human goodness altruism turns up not only in nature but also in the evolutionary history of animals and humans. Precept #14: Human nature is full of goodness, altruism, compassion and kindness. Acknowledgements Bibliography ...
