The Surprising Science of Happiness

Hi~This week I want us to talk about a topic about "Happiness".

Here is an interesting video about "Synthetic Happiness", which compare
the difference between synthetic happiness and natural happiness.
Beside, It also talks about the way people synthesizing happiness.
It turns out that being happy is not hard, we all have the abilities to make our self happy.

Enjoy the video: http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_gilbert_asks_why_are_we_happy.html


Brainstorming questions :

1.)Talk about a happy experience that you once worked hard and achieved some goals.

2.)Share ur experience that you once failed doing something (passing exam, interviewing a job, a relationship...), how did deal with the failure? Did you synthesize happiness in you life again?

3.)Sometimes we just overrated the importance of some goals and push ourselves too hard, did u hv some experience about that? What did you learn from it?

Surprising Result of Golden Melody Awards

I noticed this news from my Facebook wall at the day the Awards held. At first glance, my intuitional feeling was "how ridiculous and ironic it is", and then I found my thinking process is interesting. I realized that I have never heard her song before so I didn't have standing to criticize it. Additionally, Hong Kong singer, Sandy Lam, was the biggest winner that night. Both girls are not Taiwanese, but people had total different reactions. Wasn't it interesting?

Reading:
Shanghai girl wins Taiwan Golden Melody Awards in Taiwan after the song was part of the attack users

Questions:
Q1: What is your opinion about a Shanghai girl won the awards?
Q2: Do you think that the racial discrimination exist in Taiwan?
Q3: Some says the Golden Melody Awards should be limited for Taiwan singer. Do you think protectionism is good for us in the long-term?
Q4: Do you have any other observation from this event?

Google Doodles = Surprise

Are you a heavy user of google search engine? Do you notice that sometimes the homepage changes?
It is "Doodles," a creative group which making surprise, anniversaries, and memory of famous people to us.


http://www.google.com/doodles/about
pls see the story for doodles.

1. Have you ever seen Doodle? or you just skip the homepage?

2. Did you play the flash made by Doodle? If yes, share your experience.

3. Here are the collection of Doodle homepage. Pls choose one and tell us why you think it is special.
http://www.google.com/doodles/finder/2013/All%20doodles

4.What's your opinion of the team of Doodle?  (boring and nothing to do...making love and happy to the world...)

5.What's your ideas for Doodle? (that people can see your idea in Google homepage!!)