We don’t need to have everything we think we need to be happy, or wait for everything we want, or reach the highest point of success. To be happy is to enjoy what we have now, to be happy is to be at peace. and full of what we have. Thus explains the theme Tal Ben Shahar, the master of happiness.
Tal Ben Shahar is a professor at Harvard and has become famous for his kinds of happiness, which he defines as “the general feeling of pleasure and meaning. Does a happy person appreciate positive emotions while considering that their life makes sense?
- In his theories about positive psychology and the development of a happy life.
- The one that stands out.
- Always defended by science.
- Generates in us the feeling of pleasure and meaning.
- Some of his advice are:.
According to Professor Tal Ben Shahar, yes, you can learn to be happy and, in fact, you have to teach it in schools, to be happy is not to be well all the time, to be happy is to tolerate discomfort and not to stop. be well or feel full even when you are in a difficult situation or in poor condition.
Such Ben Shahar tells us that it is possible to learn to be happy if you know how to make decisions, from the little ones to this we consider insignificant, such as deciding to leave the mobile phone while spending time with friends, to important, to decide which one to study or spend time at work.
If we get schools to teach techniques of overcoming, emotional intelligence, resilience and interpersonal relationships from childhood, we can get, from very young, to program our brains to be happy, overcome adversity and enjoy the little things.