23. what makes people happy?
• autonomy (feeling that your activities are self-chosen and
self-endorsed)
• competence (feeling that you are effective in your
activities)
• relatedness (feeling a sense of closeness with others)
• self-esteem (set-point, or the person’s natural propensity
to happiness)
from the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, published by the American Psychological Association (APA).
27. competence includes:
•confidence in one’s abilities/knowing one’s strength’s
•feedback from others on one’s performance
•learning and growing skills
•self-actualization
•doing meaningful work
•getting into flow
29. relatedness includes:
•interacting with others
•connecting with people and connecting people
•giving to others/being generous
•feeling loved
•emotional security
•acknowledgement and support (mentorship)
31. self-esteem includes:
•your ‘set-point’ or natural (genetic) confidence level
•something you can work on through cognitive
behavioral therapy, meditation or medications
•not influenced from the outside world, but apparent
when triggered by events from the outside world
33. barriers to happiness
• fear (anxiety of failure, ignorance, mistrust)
• confusion (noise, paradox of choice, lack of good
information)
• loneliness (isolation, disconnection from others)
• lack of control (feeling of loss of control over one’s life and
surroundings, secrecy, loss of agency)
• struggle for survival (basic needs not met)
42. what leads to lack of control
•loss of control over the circumstances of one’s life
•loss of agency
•withheld information
•secrecy
•uncontrollable circumstances
51. About those rockin’ images
• Many of them are purchased from iStockPhoto.com (yay! iStockPhoto is an
awesome Canadian company!)
• Except for:
• book covers, movie posters (from Amazon.com)
• And the Flickr photos used from:
• Starbucks Cup: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mjb/118418786/
• Starbucks Globalism: http://www.flickr.com/photos/thorinside/55362248/
