And he introduced these ideas and it's all been literally uphill from then. Before Martin Seligman,
他提出了這些理念 從那時起便蓬勃發展起來 在Martin Seligman之前
This all happened in 1998 and we'll talk about it a little bit more next time. This all happened in 1998. Long before 1998,
都發生在1998年 下次我們會詳談 這都誕生于1998年 而早在1998年前
Our very own professor Ellen Langer did research in all these areas, bringing the humanistic spirit and combining it with the academic scientific rigor. We'll be talking probably more than any other scholar about her work in this class.
Ellen Langer教授就已研究了這些領域 將人本主義精神與學術科學嚴謹性結合 我們對她的討論會比對其他人多
And another person from Harvard, one of the parents of positive psychology was Philip Stone, who passed away two years ago, yesterday.
還有一位哈佛的教授 積極心理學的另一位父輩 Philip Stone 兩年前的昨天去世了
Both Langer and Stone were my physicist advisors, introduced me to the field of positive psychology into this research. In 1998 when I had the first positive psychology summit,
兩位都是我的物理學導師 帶我進入了積極心理學領域的研究 1998年我第一次參加積極心理學峰會
Professor Stone took me along with him. I was a graduate student. In 1999 he taught the first positive psychology class at Harvard,
Stone教授帶我同去 我那時在攻讀碩士學位 1999年 他首次在哈佛開設了本課程
One of the first in the world. I was his teaching fellow. A couple of years later, he taught it again.
在全球范圍內也是首批 我是他的教研員 兩年后 他又重新開設了課程
Again I was his teaching fellow. And then when I graduated, he suggested I take over his class.
我仍舊擔任教研員 后來我畢業了 他提議我接手他的課程
And here we are today. So this is 1504. Let me give you a sense of,
直到今天 這就是1504號心理學課程 我再來講講...
In the next half an hour and so, a sense of what you expect in this class. The first thing is this class is not just about information,
接下來的半小時 我會向你們介紹下這門課的內容 首先 這門課不光是傳授信息
It is also explicitly about transformation. What do I mean by that? You see most of education today is about information.
而且關于如何變形 顯而易見 這是什么意思 如今大多數教育都只是傳達信息
What is information? So we have a container, which is our mind.
什么是信息 比如 我們有一個容器 也就是我們的思想
And information is about taking data, taking science, taking information and putting it inside the form. That is information.
信息就是接收數據 接收科學 接收信息 儲存到容器里 這就是信息