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1 Thing You Can Do Today to Be Happier | Sonja Lyubomirsky | TED
1 Thing You Can Do Today to Be Happier | Sonja Lyubomirsky | TED
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Phụ đề (96)
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I’m a happiness scientist,
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and I've been a happiness scientist
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for 36 years.
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For my entire professional career,
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I've been obsessed with learning the secrets
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to being a happy person --
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with trying to answer the question: Can anyone become happier?
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Now how do we even study something like that?
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Well, in 1998, my lab pioneered what we call happiness interventions.
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Happiness interventions are experiments with human participants.
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Over the years, we've done dozens of these experiments,
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testing whether practices like expressing gratitude
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or doing acts of kindness or simply acting like an extrovert
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make people happier.
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And they do. Under the right conditions.
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My students and I spent decades doing these experiments.
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This work made my career,
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and yet I realized that I hadn't really been listening
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to what the data were trying to tell me.
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And then it finally clicked.
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It dawned on me that almost all of the interventions that work
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to make us happier,
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they work precisely because they help us
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feel more connected to and loved by others.
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So writing a gratitude letter to my mom makes me feel more loved by her.
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And doing an act of kindness for my colleague
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makes me feel closer to him.
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In other words, what I learned is that to be a better happiness scientist,
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I had to become a love scientist.
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Because, as it turns out,
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the key to happiness is feeling connected and loved.
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And I know that sounds like a cliché,
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but many powerful ideas do once you distill them.
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The real challenge and opportunity is how to put it into practice.
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So then how do we connect?
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Well we can connect through touch or dance or eye contact.
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But let's face it,
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in Western culture, in many cultures, actually,
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we mostly connect by talking.
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Yet here's the problem with our social world today.
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Even when we're talking, we all have walls around us.
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There are walls around our friends, colleagues, neighbors, even family.
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We build those walls to protect ourselves,
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yet they also keep us from ever really letting anyone in.
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They keep us from becoming truly known.
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So this is literally my number one happiness tip.
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The one thing I wish everybody knew.
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We will feel more loved if we become more known,
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if we learn to talk to people in a way that takes down the walls between us.
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The secret is super simple, yet I think massively profound.
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If you do one thing today to be happier,
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let it be this.
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Approach your next conversation differently from what you've done before.
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First, by sharing from the heart.
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You take down your walls by sharing something real about yourself,
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not just your highlight reel.
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Whether with your best friend, colleague or first date,
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be brave enough to let others see the real you.
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Here's a simple practice.
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Start small. Pacing is really important.
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So don't immediately share your deepest secret or trauma.
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If you go deep too fast,
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everyone's walls will come right back up again.
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Instead, in the beginning, maybe say something honest,
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like "I've had a rough day" instead of "I'm fine."
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Recent studies show that people will like you more
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when the conversation is deeper, as opposed to shallower.
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Two, you help the other person lower their walls when you listen to them
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in order to learn, not to respond.
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Quiet your voice so theirs can be heard.
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So during your next conversation, instead of mentally rehearsing your story,
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try to listen like there's going to be a quiz tomorrow.
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Furthermore, ask one more question than you’d normally ask,
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like: How did that really feel?
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Such questions signal that you're right there with them.
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When was the last time someone asked you a real question about your life?
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It's rare.
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Yet research shows that people yearn to be asked,
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and those who ask questions are better liked.
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And yet, you've probably all had this experience.
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Someone talks at you for an hour, tells you their whole life story,
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then walks away knowing nothing about you.
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Am I right?
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That's not what I meant.
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Sharing and listening hold hands.
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If you only share, it's a monologue.
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If you only listen, it's an interview.
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But when you do both, that's when the magic happens.
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And that's it. It's really that simple.
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By sharing a little more and listening a little deeper,
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all of us can learn to take the walls down.
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If we do, we’ll know one another better.
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We’ll feel more loved.
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And we’ll help the people in our lives feel more love too.
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Thank you.
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(Applause)
