That at that time didn't have the name that it has today. But essentially research that falls under or within the field of positive psychology. Positive psychology, studying it.
那時并未正式命名 但本質(zhì)上屬于積極心理學范疇 研究積極心理學
Applying the ideas to my life has made me significantly happier. It continues to make me happier. And it was when I realized the impact that it had on me that I decided to share it with others.
把其理念應(yīng)用到生活中 讓我無比快樂 而且這種快樂繼續(xù)著 于是我決定將其與更多的人分享
That's when I decided that I wanted to be a teacher and teach in this field. So this is positive psychology, psychology 1504.
選擇教授這門學科 這就是積極心理學 1504號心理學課程
And we'll be exploring this new, relatively new and fascinating field. And hopefully, we will be exploring more than the field ourselves.
我們將一起探索這一全新 相對新興 令人傾倒的領(lǐng)域 希望同時還能探索我們自己
When I first taught this class that was back in 2002, I taught it at a seminar and had eight students. Two dropped out.
我第一次開設(shè)這門課程 是在2002年 是以討論會的形式 只有8名學生 兩名退出了
That left me with six. The year after, the class became slightly larger.
只剩我和其他六個人 一年后 學生稍微多了一點
I had over three hundred students. And then third year when I taught it which was the last time, I had 850 students in the class,
有300多人參加 到了第三年 也就是上一次開課 有850人參加
Making it at that point the largest course at Harvard. And that's when the media became interested. Because they wanted to understand why.
是當時哈佛人數(shù)最多的課程 這引起了媒體的關(guān)注 因為他們想知道為什么
They wanted to understand this phenomenon that "here you have a class, that's larger than Introduction to Economics". How could that be?
他們對這一奇特現(xiàn)象非常好奇 "竟然有比經(jīng)濟學導論更熱門的課程 怎么可能呢?"
So I was invited by the media for interviews, whether it was newspapers, radio, television. And I started to notice a pattern during those interviews.
于是我被請去參加各類媒體采訪 報紙 廣播 電視 從這些采訪中 我發(fā)現(xiàn)了一種有趣的模式
So I would walk into the interview. We would have the interview. And afterwards, the producer or the interviewer would walk me out
我前去參加采訪 進行采訪 結(jié)束后 制片人或主持人會送我出來
And say something to the effects of "well thank you Tal for the interview. But you know I expected you to be different". And I would ask, as nonchalant as I could of course.
說些諸如"Tal 多謝你抽空參加采訪 "不過你跟我想象的不太一樣"的話 我漫不經(jīng)心地問