If you are happy, and work on your own happiness, you are contributing indirectly to other people's happiness, just like the baby who laughed last time made you laugh. It's contagious.
你快樂并努力爭取快樂就是間直接對他人的快樂作出貢獻就像上次大笑的嬰兒,把你們逗笑笑是感染的
Generally people who work on their happiness again, not people who experience constantly high,
一般來說,努力爭取快樂的人再一次,不是那些總是保持快樂的人
they would have difficulty having real relationships since they are dead
那種人將很難建立人際關系因為他們是死的
but generally, people, those of us who are alive, who work on happiness,
一般來說,活著的人努力爭取快樂
who experience the vicissitude of life the ups and downs
體驗生活的變遷,起起落落
but overall work on happiness and become happier and happier, have better relationships,
但努力爭取快樂而且越來越快樂有更好的人際關系
more generous, more accepting of other people, more tolerant of other people as well as themselves.
更寬容,更接受他人更容忍他人和他們自己
There's a lot of research to show that helping ourselves, in other words, working on our happiness,
很多研究表明自我幫助換言之,努力為自己爭取快樂
contributing to our wellbeing, leads us to also be more generous and benevolent toward others.
有助我們獲得幸福也能引導我們對他人更加寬容和親切
This is a research by one of the leading researchers, one of the first researches in the area of positive emotions, Alice Isen.
一位重要的研究者積極情緒領域的首批研究者之一Alice Isen進行了這個研究
And she showed, time and again, how feeling good is good for us and good for others, and it works the other way as well.
她反復證明感覺好如何對我們和他人都有益反之亦然
This is a wonderful thing about happiness.
這是快樂很美妙的地方
It works the other way as well, because helping others also helps ourselves.
別人快樂你也快樂因為幫助他人也是幫助自己
Remember your task for this week a dozen of you have already read it
記得你們這周的任務一些同學已經知道
it's to commit- above and beyond what you usually commit- five extra acts of kindness during one day.
就是去做超越以往所做的事情一天內多做五件好事