Shawn Anchor teaches at Harvard University and he talked about the idea of positive psychology. He described a story of when he was seven years old, his five year old sister fell off the top bunk and landed on her hands and knees.He could tell his sister was about to start screaming and crying because of the shock and pain she was in, but before she could he thought of a plan, . He told her that no human landed the way she did so she was in fact a unicorn, knowing her love for unicorns. In the end she chose to be happy about being a unicorn instead of breaking down of how much pain she was in from falling. She was happy and she didn’t cry. I think it is really interesting how positive psychology can do something like that. Everybody wants to be happy but a lot of people are not. Instead of focusing on the negatives of life we should start being happy about the positives. If everyone payed more attention to the happier side of things and I think that will make everyone overall, a little more positive and happy in their life.
Here is a link to the video of Shawn Anchor speaking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8DngXKtvEQ&feature=youtu.be_
Here is a link to the video of Shawn Anchor speaking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8DngXKtvEQ&feature=youtu.be_