Why humans want more than happiness?

[letric]

Authentic happiness, require three things: positive emotion, engagement with the world and others
and a sense of meaning and purpose. What most humans want is not just happiness, they want justice, they want meaning.

[letric]

Do not rush or panic. There is very little
that cannot wait until tomorrow.

[Falcon]

who defined 'authentic happiness'?

[letric]

who defined 'authentic happiness'?


Martin Seligman (director of Positive Psychology)
Authentic Happiness

Nicholas Brealey Publishing.

[letric]

Martin Seligman (director of Positive Psychology)
Authentic Happiness

Nicholas Brealey Publishing.

'Flourish: A New Understanding of Happiness And Well-Being - And How To Achieve Them'
by Martin Seligman ( Nicholas Brealey Publishing)
Positve Psychology Center
at the University of Pennsylvania.

[letric]

Authentic happiness, Seligman argued, back in 1998, he used his presidency
of American Psychological Association to promote the idea that psychology
should not be just about solving problems, but creating better mental health
in everyone. Since then, the rise of 'positive psychology' has been unstoppable.

[Falcon]

sorry letric,
no Yank is going to define authentic anything for me. They are too insular a bunch.

[letric]

sorry letric,
no Yank is going to define authentic anything for me. They are too insular a bunch.

Fair enough.

[letric]

To be happy, it is essential to recognise what happiness is. One problem is the
use of language itself. Linguists refer to 'nominalisation' to to explain that, once
you put a word on that feeling it becomes 'it', a 'thing'. It is like a ball that you
have got to catch, and try to hold on to it. To some that is an 'it, or a destination,
or even a positive state of mind: it is your true nature. It is you, minus your neurosis.
I believe that this is one of the biggest blocks to happiness - thinking that we have to
deserve it to have it.

[letric]

Of course, it is no longer believed that our personality is wholly dictated by our genetics.
Instead, we have found that the functioning of our genes changes according to nutrition
and attitude, so choices lay an even bigger part in our happiness than originally thought.
What choices am I talking about here? I mean choosing to be grateful about what you
have rather than complain about what yuou do not; choosing to forgive rather than hold
grudges and - perhaps most importantly - choosing to believe that happiness is not some-
that only comes to those who deserve it..

[letric]

In order to be completely happy the only thing necessary to refrain
from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which
were not enjoyed, is not to compare them with other moments of the
future. The supreme happiness of life is to the knowledge that we
are loved.