New Archetypal Personality Test

Are you more like Michael Jordan or Martin Luther King Jr?
More like Tina Fey or Wonderwoman?

This link goes to is a different kind of personality test (are you a warrior or a fool?)

This link, helps you understand what it means.

Have fun!

Relationships and Happiness!!! Blog Five

Write 3 longish paragraphs - each will be about one of the following in terms of love and relationships.  You can use your life or "theoretical" examples.  If you haven't read Tal Ben-Shahar's chapter on this topic, now would be a great time to read it.

The possible topics:

• Complaining vs Fixing vs Accepting
• Real Love vs "the Ideal"
• Identity and Love (gender, sexual orientation, race, religion, etc.)
• Cultivating vs Finding
• Spending More Time with Loved Ones
• Core Self (yours or someone else's)
• Knowing vs. Validating
• Gratitude
• Sacrifice vs. Sharing

Is this bear trying to change the wolf? snuggle him? eat him? 

Some Quotes about Love and Happiness and an interesting article

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.  - Buddha

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The modern fairy tale ending is the reverse of the traditional one: A woman does not wait for Prince Charming to bring her happiness; she lives happily ever after only by refusing to wait for him -- or by actually rejecting him. It is those who persist in hoping for a Prince Charming who are setting themselves up for disillusionment and unhappiness. - Susan Faludi

Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect...- E. M. Forster

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What kinds of relationships will make you happier?  This article argues that the more committed a relatioship, the happier!

Midterm doc

https://docs.google.com/document/edit?id=1oVIeoag-t8_Lo8u3T9RGJwdd-0UJxMt2gdrZ2WZX9AM&hl=en&authkey=CPzqx84H

Cool briggs-myers type Links

Here's one that shows you the best way to study for your type!  Let me know if it seems accurate to you!!! This one specifically focuses on studying for midterms!!!!

And, even though I shouldn't let you in on our secrets (insert evil laugh), here's one on the 4 kinds of professor personalities (and how to do the best in courses taught by them).   While you know the type of yours truly, its pretty easy to tell which kind your other teachers are too.  

Briggs-Myers Test

http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp

Video to watch for this weekend

Here's Harry Potter's creator speaking to the graduating class of Harvard:
http://www.ted.com/talks/jk_rowling_the_fringe_benefits_of_failure.html


J.K. Rowling Speaks at Harvard Commencement from Harvard Magazine on Vimeo.


AM Class - Catch up on reading and watch this vdeo

PM Class - The same, plus a short blog (#4, only 250 words this time) on Happiness and Work.

See you Mon

Library

BOTH SECTIONS OF 101 WILL REPORT TO THE CLASSROOM IN THE LIBRARY IN THE E BLDG NEXT THURS 10/14 !!!!  See you there!

DON'T GO TO THE USUAL CLASSROOM :)

First "Paper" Assignment - How you can increase your own happiness in education.

This essay of 900-1000 words (or more) will state the ways you will modify your thoughts, habits, choices or actions in order to increase your HQ ("happiness quotient" - or basically, how happy you are) in education. 

Be sure to:

1) Present a thesis:
Here are a few examples from class (try to avoid 'parroting' them)

• I will encourage my natural curiosity in order to experience greater happiness in school.
• As a right-brained learner, I will need to use emotional and spacial concepts to help me overcome my challenges in math and science.
• Channeling my enormous social energies in the right directions would positively transform my feelings about school.

2) Provide an essay map
This site has info on creating great thesis statements and essay maps!

3) Write 4 or more body paragraphs, each with a solid topic sentence and details.
This site has great info on topic sentences.
Details can include:

• Definitions of complex ideas
• Quotes from the videos and/or texts you've read in class. I'd aim for at least one quote or paraphrase in each paragraph.  In addition, if there are other sources you'd like to use, you can also do so. 
• Explaination
• Personal Anecdote

Be sure that ALL the details support the topic sentence!

4) Conclusion.  This site has a nice intro to the concept!.

Happy Writing!

No class 10/4 - Assignment is below (read ASAP)

Dearest Class!

I am so sorry, but I won't be able to come to class tomorrow.

Here's the plan  (each class has DIFFERENT things to do, so check if you are in the AM (meets at 10:30 AM) or PM (meets at 1:00 PM) class.

If you are in the AM class, please continue to work on the blogs you have due for Thursday.  In addition, please complete all of the reading you have due for this week (listed on the syllabus).  Any questions, write me at emccormick@lagcc.cuny.edu.  This week is about happiness at work.

If you are in the PM class,  your blogs are still due at midnight tonight.  In addition, I would like you to write 3 or more long and detailed comments on your peers' blogs.  These should be at least 5-6 sentences long and provide information on a) the post's strengths, b) places where it can be improved and c) suggestions to help improve it.  These are due by midnight tomorrow (Monday).  In addition, for Thursday, please complete all of the reading you have due for this week (listed on the syllabus).  This week is about happiness at work.   Any questions, write me at emccormick@lagcc.cuny.edu.

Last but not least, I'd like both groups to watch the following video before Thursday.   Try to comment - briefly - in the comment section below!