I'll spend all the time that I can with my family. But professionally what do I want to accomplish in this year? And my immediate response was.
我会用所有时间和家人一起度过 但是在职业上在这一年我想完成什么? 我的第一反应就是
I want to leave behind a coherent body of work, a coherent course introducing people to positive psychology. While I arrived at the hospital, I had some more checks.
我要留下一个系列的课程 一个向人们介绍积极心理学的系列课程 我到达医院之后再进行了一些检查
It ends up being nothing too serious. They put me on antibiotics. And within a couple of days I am on the way to recovery.
结果是没什么严重情况 他们让我服抗生素 几天之内我就开始复原了
I want to share with you today though why. Why is it the most important thing for me at that time and still today.
但是今天我要和你们探讨 为什么对我最重要的事情. 那时和现在都是如此
Is to leave behind a coherent body of work about positive psychology, to introduce you to this wonderful field?
就是留下一系列 关于积极心理学的课程 向你们介绍这个奇妙的领域?
Why positive psychology? Why is it? Its own field? Why is it not well, just study happiness, wellbeing as part of social psychology or clinical psychology?
为什么是积极心理学?为什么是这个领域? 为什么不只是研究 社会心理学或临床心理学的幸福?
Why have so many scholars around the world united around this concept of positive psychology? So this is what I want to do today.
为什么世界上这么多学者 都在研究积极心理学这个概念? 这是我今天要说的
In the year of 2000, a research was done by David Myers. Davis Myers, from Hope College some of you who've studied social psychology may have read his textbook.
2000年 David Myers做了一项研究 霍普学院的David Myers 你们当中学过 社会心理学的可能读过他的书
Did research, looking at psychological abstracts. What he looked at was the ratio between "negative research" and "positive research"
他做了心理学概念方面的研究 他研究的是 "消极研究"和"积极研究"之间的比率
Here is what he found. From 1967 to year of 2000- this was around the time when positive psychology started.
这是他的研究结果 从1967年到2000年 这是积极心理学的形成期