I'll spend all the time that I can with my family. But professionally what do I want to accomplish in this year? And my immediate response was.
我會用所有時間和家人一起度過 但是在職業上在這一年我想完成什么? 我的第一反應就是
I want to leave behind a coherent body of work, a coherent course introducing people to positive psychology. While I arrived at the hospital, I had some more checks.
我要留下一個系列的課程 一個向人們介紹積極心理學的系列課程 我到達醫院之后再進行了一些檢查
It ends up being nothing too serious. They put me on antibiotics. And within a couple of days I am on the way to recovery.
結果是沒什么嚴重情況 他們讓我服抗生素 幾天之內我就開始復原了
I want to share with you today though why. Why is it the most important thing for me at that time and still today.
但是今天我要和你們探討 為什么對我最重要的事情. 那時和現在都是如此
Is to leave behind a coherent body of work about positive psychology, to introduce you to this wonderful field?
就是留下一系列 關于積極心理學的課程 向你們介紹這個奇妙的領域?
Why positive psychology? Why is it? Its own field? Why is it not well, just study happiness, wellbeing as part of social psychology or clinical psychology?
為什么是積極心理學?為什么是這個領域? 為什么不只是研究 社會心理學或臨床心理學的幸福?
Why have so many scholars around the world united around this concept of positive psychology? So this is what I want to do today.
為什么世界上這么多學者 都在研究積極心理學這個概念? 這是我今天要說的
In the year of 2000, a research was done by David Myers. Davis Myers, from Hope College some of you who've studied social psychology may have read his textbook.
2000年 David Myers做了一項研究 霍普學院的David Myers 你們當中學過 社會心理學的可能讀過他的書
Did research, looking at psychological abstracts. What he looked at was the ratio between "negative research" and "positive research"
他做了心理學概念方面的研究 他研究的是 "消極研究"和"積極研究"之間的比率
Here is what he found. From 1967 to year of 2000- this was around the time when positive psychology started.
這是他的研究結果 從1967年到2000年 這是積極心理學的形成期