Getting the measure of happiness

摘要

Little overlap between your answers?Imagine we could teach both in schoolwithout sacrificing either, said ProfessorMartin Seligman (Director of theUniversity of Pennsylvania PositivePsychology Center) in opening this 8thAnnual Lecture of the British Academyand the British Psychological Society.The skills of the workplace – literacy,numeracy and the like – are not onlycompatible with life goals such as joy,meaning, civility and strength, he argued,they are synchronous.