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Harvard Positive Psychology 1504 (Tal Ben-Shahar) · 2026-10-14Harvard Positive Psychology Lecture 1, What Is Positive Psychology?

The course grew out of a personal question. Ben-Shahar was doing well at everything as a Harvard sophomore and still unhappy, so he switched from computer science to philosophy and psychology to find out why

Harvard Positive Psychology 1504 (Tal Ben-Shahar) · 2026-10-14Harvard Positive Psychology Lecture 2, Why Study Positive Psychology?

Psychology has studied what goes wrong far more than what goes right: about 21 articles on anger, anxiety and depression for every one on joy, happiness or life satisfaction

Harvard Positive Psychology 1504 (Tal Ben-Shahar) · 2026-10-14Harvard Positive Psychology Lecture 3, Is Happiness Random?

Questions shape what you see. Asking "what works, and why do some people succeed?" finds things that asking "what is wrong?" misses. Marva Collins is his model

Harvard Positive Psychology 1504 (Tal Ben-Shahar) · 2026-10-14Harvard Positive Psychology Lecture 4, The Power of One and the Permission to Be Human

People underestimate what one person can change because they underestimate exponential growth. A smile or a favour passed on to three people, who each pass it on to three more, reaches huge numbers within a few steps (5:38, 15:15).

Harvard Positive Psychology 1504 (Tal Ben-Shahar) · 2026-10-14Harvard Positive Psychology Lecture 5, Self-Fulfilling Beliefs and the Power of the Situation

Feeling good needs little defence, but it also pays off: Barbara Fredrickson's broaden-and-build theory says positive emotions widen thinking and build resources over time

Crash Course US History · 2026-10-11Crash Course US History #1, The Black Legend

US history starts with the people already here, not with Columbus or George Washington

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