Movie review
This movie gives us the eleventh reason to be optimistic. The speaker in this movie is Martin Seligman, a psychologist who is, along with his team, trying to explain and connect design, technology and entertainment with positive psychology.
In his lecture, he tries to explain what kinds of happiness are there and what kind of happiness is the best one. The aim of psychology, among other things, is to make people happier and not just to treat mental illnesses. There are three aims that psychology should be concerned with and they include strength, the building of strength and making lives happier. It is shown that extremely social people are happy people. But what is happiness and is there only one kind of happiness?
Martin described and elaborated that happiness can be manifested in three ways or that there are three forms of happiness. The first is the pleasant life. The pleasant life includes as much pleasures as a person can have. But, there are major drawbacks: it is heritable and it habituates. He presented the second one with the example of his friend Glen, who led a fulfilled life, but wasn’t funny and interesting to women, so he didn’t have luck in love. He named that kind of life the good life. The good thing about people who lead a good life is that they use their highest strength and are capable of flaw. And the third type of a happy life is a meaningful life-a life that involves using your highest strengths, recreating them and using them in highest goals and because of that it is the strongest one.
All of these three types of happy lives can be improved with the help of psychology, design, technology and entertainment. Therefore, the eleventh reason to be optimistic is the hope that in the future design, technology and entertainment will increase human happiness all over the world.
Works cited
ted.com/talks/martin_seligman_on_the_state_of_psychology.html
