PSY336H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: T Power, Arri, Peak Experience
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Love, compassion, empathy, kindness, yearning for growth already inside us: hard to realize when you struggle w shame, etc, you don"t have to change to be happy, cz: interested in consciousness, happiness, wellbeing, peak performance, creativity, phenomenologist, life is a series of moments; the quality of your life is the accumulation of all those experiences, we can bring into our consciousness many things. Choosing our own adventure to some extent: we can go from happy to sad w/o any event, you can be tipped by experiences, flexibility of consciousness, attention selects things into your consciousness, all we really did in our expt today was use our imagination, we thought about things that aren"t happening now, but it was powerful, cz: interviewed ppl about peak experiences (when you feel most fully alive, interviewed huge range of humanity (ages 14 80s) in many cultures & backgrounds, found virtual universalities to human experience.
