Based on the concepts of positive psychology, this course aims to show that we look for the wrong things in life. Lots of money, a career, awesome stuff\u2026 None of this brings happiness. Investing in experiences, spending time with friends, meditating, sleeping, gratitude, looking after ourselves\u2026 these are the things that make us happy. But our brains are distorted, full of prejudices and annoying features that don’t help us in our quest for happiness. This is one of the most interesting aspects of this course. Laurie Santos provides data, examples of scientific studies and plenty of references, but throughout the course, there are rewirement exercises and a final rewirement assignment to do. It’s all about putting theory into practice. I loved this course, but I could really start again from the beginning, as some of the prejudices are genuinely challenging to overcome. A fantastic course that everyone should do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Let’s start with savouring.\u00a0What do I mean by savouring?\u00a0Well, in this psychological context,\u00a0when I’m talking about savouring,\u00a0I’m going to be talking about this act of stepping outside\u00a0your own experience to kind of review and appreciate it.\u00a0So when we have a good experience, we are eating ice cream,\u00a0some of you might have had some of the goodies that are outside,\u00a0one of those delicious cookies and so on.\u00a0You can just have that experience, or you could kind of be mindful as you’re having it,\u00a0instead realize that it is that experience.\u00a0You can have the moment where you realize this is actually a good delicious experience,\u00a0I like eating some glucose that is tasting really good right now.\u00a0And you could have this moment of realization where you’re like this is really awesome.\u00a0This is the phenomenon of savouring.\u00a0And it turns out that savouring does a couple of things.\u00a0One is, it forces you to actually notice and enjoy that experience,\u00a0and keep your attention on it.\u00a0Our attention is this horrible beast that is going to be moving around all the time.\u00a0You can be eating your cookie thinking about what your problem set is and so on.\u00a0 Or you could be eating your cookie, realizing you’re having this enjoyable experience.\u00a0And the latter means you notice things much more.\u00a0That means you start higher on\u00a0your hedonic adaptation curve, and it takes you longer to go down.\u00a0The second reason that savouring is really important,\u00a0is it kind of focuses you on that experience for even longer,\u00a0and that can also help you prevent adaptation.”<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Based on the concepts of positive psychology, this course aims to show that we look for the wrong things in life. Lots of money, a career, awesome stuff\u2026 None of this brings happiness. Investing in experiences, spending time with friends, meditating, sleeping, gratitude, looking after ourselves\u2026 these are the things that make us happy. But […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13590,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[134],"tags":[186,98,13],"class_list":["post-13584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-courses","tag-happiness","tag-life","tag-resilience"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/camille-brodard-Q7c8BxMPLKo-unsplash-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1706&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13584"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13813,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13584\/revisions\/13813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}