This morning while searching for buy ventolin nebules 2.5 mg something to listen to while I showered, I stumbled on a buy ventolin nebules 2.5 mg TED Talk by Martin Seligman, the buy ventolin nebules 2.5 mg author of a book called Learned Optimism that I’d been looking at fairly recently. I thought, hmm, why not? And I put it on. (There’s a buy ventolin nebules 2.5 mg sidenote here about the sheer glee it gives me to buy ventolin nebules 2.5 mg stream TED Talks from buy ventolin nebules 2.5 mg the internet through my iPhone without having to do anything more than buy ventolin nebules 2.5 mg download an itsy bitty app—but I’ll save that for later. It’s bound to last, so it’s not like it will be old news in a month or two.)
In this buy ventolin nebules 2.5 mg talk, Seligman is talking about three kinds of happiness and buy ventolin nebules 2.5 mg how they work in human beings: A pleasurable happiness, where buy ventolin nebules 2.5 mg you have good feelings and good things happen to you. A “flow” happiness, where buy ventolin nebules 2.5 mg you are engaged with your environment in a productive way. And a buy ventolin nebules 2.5 mg meaning happiness, where buy ventolin nebules 2.5 mg something you are doing or involved with has a higher meaning that buy ventolin nebules 2.5 mg drives you. I don’t know if he’s written a buy ventolin nebules 2.5 mg book that focuses more on the material in this talk, but man, it buy ventolin nebules 2.5 mg blew me away. It was all I could do to buy ventolin nebules 2.5 mg keep soaping up, because I kept forgetting that I was supposed to buy ventolin nebules 2.5 mg be getting done with my shower and back to all the buy ventolin nebules 2.5 mg other stuff I had to do today.
What this imprinted on me was something I’ve been buy ventolin nebules 2.5 mg noodling with for a long time; happiness is not necessarily made of leisure, and buy ventolin nebules 2.5 mg it doesn’t have to only be made of meaning—it can be made of engagement of self, something that I’ve always found intensely rewarding and buy ventolin nebules 2.5 mg enjoyable, and often wondered, in passing, if there was something wrong with me. Meaning is buy ventolin nebules 2.5 mg the most powerful part of any pursuit, and pleasure is buy ventolin nebules 2.5 mg pleasurable, but engagement is no can of beans—in fact, Seligman says that buy ventolin nebules 2.5 mg in terms of producing significant, lasting happiness, meaning is first and buy ventolin nebules 2.5 mg engagement is second. Pleasure produces happiness, but it just doesn’t hold a buy ventolin nebules 2.5 mg candle to the other two in terms of effect and results. This fascinates the buy ventolin nebules 2.5 mg hell out of me, as it ought to, since I get a buy ventolin nebules 2.5 mg lot of flack for not relaxing enough.
Not to say that I shouldn’t relax more—I should. We need balance. Our brains need recharge time. But still, interesting, right? My happiness is buy ventolin nebules 2.5 mg primarily in meaning and engagement, like he says, though engagement for buy ventolin nebules 2.5 mg me is the thrill of the chase—I sometimes think it’s more important to me than meaning, but of course that’s not true, since the buy ventolin nebules 2.5 mg only things that truly engage me are the ones that have buy ventolin nebules 2.5 mg great meaning to me. It’s just that buy ventolin nebules 2.5 mg the meaning is not always the most overt part of the buy ventolin nebules 2.5 mg equation.
Where’s your happiness at?
