Focus and Habits
Focus and Habits
Focus and Habits
Nicolas Mosqueda
In the video “Psychology and the Good Life” by Laurie Santos I was able to learn about on how to imporve my quality of life and just how to become happier overall. The main takeaways I got from the video was the importance of expressing gratitude and helping others.
Expressing Gratitude: Santos stressed the importance of being grateful for all the great things we have in life. She explained how doing has proven to make people happier through several studies. I can incorporate this into my life my sitting down for 20 minutes with no distractions and wrting out all the things I am grateful for.
Helping Others: Santos described an experiement in which peolpe were given 5 dollars and some kept the money and spent on themselves while others gave it to others. It was found that the ones who gave the money away were signifianclty more satisfied. This shows that in helping others you are infireclty helping your own happiness. I can incorporate this in my life by making sure to do a random act of kindness week such as giving a homeless person money.
Ben Lee
Laurie Santos gave me lots of insight on how to improve my daily life in the video “Psychology and the Good Life”. Some of the ideas that I think will be the most helpful for me are making time for things other than work and importance of getting proper sleep.
Making time: Santo speaks on how nowadays peolpe get so caught up in work that they dont spend time doing anything else. She explained how this is very bad for our health and we need to make time for other things. I can incorporate this in my life my setting a schedule every week for when I will hangout with my firends and go to the gym so I dont end up spending my entire day doing homework.
Sleep: Santos talked about the importance of sleep and how a lack of sleep can greatly affect a persons happiness. She mentioned a statistic of highschool students getting an average of around 4 hours of sleep per night which is far from the recommneded 8 hours. I can ensure that I get a good nights sleep every night by setting an alarm on my phone to go to bed at a certain time everynight.
