So the conventional question, the traditional psychologist question was "why are so many people stressed?" An important question, good question, question that yielded many great answers but not enough.
传统的问题,传统的心理学家会问“为什么这么多人压力过大?”这是非常重要的,非常好的问题,能够引出很多好的回答,但仍然不够
And then positive psychologists came in.
然后积极心理学出现了
And what they did was ask also the positive question. Just like when we talked about the research with at risk population. Just like Marva Collins asked a different question. Because questions open up avenues, quests that we may have not seen before.
而他们所做的是,同样问一些积极的问题,就像我们在讲到关于危险人群的研究时说过,就像玛瓦·科林斯曾经问过一个不一样的问题。因为问题能打开思路,探索我们之前可能没有见过的东西
And the question became "what do those who were successful and able to lead a healthy and happy life do?"
这样问题就变成“那些成功的过着健康快乐生活的人是怎么做的?”
In other words, focusing on what works. In other words, focusing on tip of the stem. Because while most people are stressed, not all of them are.
换句话说,关注起作用的事物,也就是关注茎尖端的芽。因为虽然很多人都压力过大,但不是所有人都这样
There are people who are able to be successful and at the same time, lead a health and happy life. What do they do? What is it about them?
有一些人能够很成功,同时过着健康和快乐的生活。他们是怎么做的?他们做了些什么?
Here is what they do. What was found was that there are some distinguishing characteristics—two of them: they set rituals for themselves and we talked about rituals in the past; the second thing that they do—and this is what I'm going to elaborate on now—the second thing that they do, in addition to having rituals, whether it's a lot of rituals, or few rituals, depending on individual needs and differences.
他们是这样做的。人们发现他们有一些特别的特质,有两点:他们为自己建立例行公事,我们之前讲过例行公事的。第二件事也就是我现在要详细讲的,他们所做的第二件事,除了建立例行公事,不管是很多的例行公事还是寥寥几件,视乎个人需要和个人差异