Flourishing
I don't have time to write my morning pages this morning. Instead, I read half the paper, ate a bagel and drank a cup of coffee, went for a long walk in a mirky wood at dawn, weeded and turned over a garden bed then planted my lettuces and brussels sprouts (but not get the shallots that will go there, too) and planted some basil in a pot on the deck, fetched my kid back from the nurse's office at school, done some scheduling stuff, and now I'm at my desk. My first several appointments of the day are via webcam. No one need notice that I'm wearing sweatpants stained with dirt at the knees.
So if I'd written it would have been about PERMA, Seligman's recipe for flourishing, building on his previous work on Happiness. He now thinks his 2002 book on Authentic Happiness is a piece of shite. LOL. He got something like 20 million dollars from a benefactor to create this line of science and he's mad he didn't get it right the first time. I identify with him!
Anyway, he now thinks it goes beyond Positive Emotions (what you might call "Happiness") to include others, with the acronym PERMA
Positive Emotions
Engagement (getting into "flow")
Relationships (he specifies "positive", apparently "toxic" won't do)
Meaning (I forget that one: I have precious little in my life)
Achievement (which is why lying around having sex all day won't provide a flourishing life. Unless, you know, achieving pregnancy is your goal.)
Apparently we're supposed to balance these in our lives. I feel like I'm doing Self-Help Yoga here.
So if I'd written it would have been about PERMA, Seligman's recipe for flourishing, building on his previous work on Happiness. He now thinks his 2002 book on Authentic Happiness is a piece of shite. LOL. He got something like 20 million dollars from a benefactor to create this line of science and he's mad he didn't get it right the first time. I identify with him!
Anyway, he now thinks it goes beyond Positive Emotions (what you might call "Happiness") to include others, with the acronym PERMA
Positive Emotions
Engagement (getting into "flow")
Relationships (he specifies "positive", apparently "toxic" won't do)
Meaning (I forget that one: I have precious little in my life)
Achievement (which is why lying around having sex all day won't provide a flourishing life. Unless, you know, achieving pregnancy is your goal.)
Apparently we're supposed to balance these in our lives. I feel like I'm doing Self-Help Yoga here.