Discussion: Positive Aging, Social Connections, and Flow

Read and watch all the assigned resources for this module. Be sure to complete both assigned self-assessments as well. Then, using what you’ve learned, write a post of at least 250 words discussing the value of social connections and positive emotions to happiness. Use and define Csikszentmihaly’s term, “flow.”

Module 2: Gratitude Journal Post: The Work Paradox

For Module 2, you were assigned to read and complete the reading and exercise in your Even Happier Gratitude Journal titled, “Week 4: The Work Paradox” on pages 13-15.  For this Gratitude Journal Post, address the following:

Can you learn to see your experience of school or work as a privilege?  What do you enjoy in the experience? Are you able to enjoy it? Do you know people who exemplify a life of pleasurable work?

Exercise Program.  Post your results for the Exercise Program exercise located on page 15.  What did you list for the Personal Development category? What did you list for the Professional Development category?  Were there things about both personal and professional activities that were enjoyable, and is there overlap between the two? If so, can you identify a common theme in both “work” and “pleasure” that you enjoy?

And just as with the Gratitude Journal Post in Module 1, spend some time on your weekly gratitude list again, posting the things you are grateful for.