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You can ask, how do you stack up for positive emotion, for meaning, for flow, against literally tens of thousands of other people?

We found that we could discover the causation of the positive states, the relationship between left hemispheric activity and right hemispheric activity, as a cause of happiness.

This is a life in which you have as much positive emotion as you possibly can, and the skills to amplify it.

But the pleasant life has three drawbacks, and it's why positive psychology is not happy-ology, and why it doesn't end here.

The first drawback is, it turns out the pleasant life, your experience of positive emotion, is about 50 percent heritable, and, in fact, not very modifiable.

So the different tricks that Matthieu and I and others know about increasing the amount of positive emotion in your life are 15 to 20 percent tricks, getting more of it.

Second is that positive emotion habituates.

I have to tell you about my friend Len, to talk about why positive psychology is more than positive emotion, more than building pleasure.

You don't have positive emotion.

And Len was wealthy enough to be able to afford a Park Avenue psychoanalyst, who for five years tried to find the sexual trauma that had somehow locked positive emotion inside of him.

Len is in the bottom five percent of what we call positive affectivities.

Contrary to what psychology told us about the bottom 50 percent of the human race in positive affectivity, I think Len is one of the happiest people I know.

The first path, positive emotion; the second path is eudaemonian flow; and the third path is meaning.

So those are examples of positive interventions.

That is, in a corporation, is productivity a function of positive emotion, engagement and meaning?

Is health a function of positive engagement, of pleasure, and of meaning in life?

That is, it is possible for these three drivers of our world to increase happiness, to increase positive emotion.

If entertainment can be diverted to also increase positive emotion, meaning eudaemonia, it will be good enough.

And if design can increase positive emotion, eudaemonia, and flow and meaning, what we're all doing together will become good enough.

Well, to end on a very positive note, I think evolutionarily speaking, this is probably a fairly good thing, in the end.

I believe that photography can make a real connection to people, and can be employed as a positive agent for understanding the challenges and opportunities facing our world today.

We've had 30 years of pep-talking and selling positive ideas.

Hopefully everything has been positive.

And that has been the story so far, and it's been a positive story.

So it has been a positive story.

For example, we might create an incentive to work in the community to help others, or perhaps to do positive things for the environment, and so forth.

And they're manipulable in ways that can produce some extremely positive outcomes.

On the other hand, the capacities for positive results in the aftermath of a war are also not to be underestimated, even by, and I would say especially by, people who are deeply skeptical about whether we should go to war in the first place.

You see, assigning a letter to my father, a letter to my son, "If I knew then what I know now ..." "If I believed one positive thing about myself, how would my life be different?"

Positrons are essentially electrons with positive charge.

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