Today in my English 123 (Composition) classes at SCAD (Savannah College of Art and Design), I started a new daily segment I’m calling “Dr. Saye’s Top Ten Happiness Questions.” In my courses this term, the students and I are examining the Popular Psychology concept of Happiness Studies. We are reading Harvard professor Tal Ben-Shahar’s Happier: Learn the Secrets to Daily Joy and Lasting Fulfillment and Paulo Coelho’s incredibly bestselling novel/fable, The Alchemist.
And we’re having So Much Fun.
But before I ask you my Happiness Question #10, I invite you to quickly watch this somewhat insane YouTube video:
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Seriously?
Here’s Happiness Question #10, which if you will incorporate into your life, I give you a money-back guarantee that you will be happier!
“JUST HOW IMPORTANT IS IT?”
“JUST HOW IMPORTANT IS IT?”
“JUST HOW IMPORTANT IS IT?”
Try saying it out loud:
“JUST HOW IMPORTANT IS IT?”
If you want to live a life of joy, your answer may be that it’s really not all that important.
Ask it the next time somebody pulls in front of you in traffic.
Choose Joy.
