would be soo much brighter than the few new movements from phones stuporous you see . these for instance on t.v. don't come. thanks for joining r t it's half past the hour and these are your top stories the u.n. convoy comes under fire in what appears to be a rebel held area in syria while washington considers injecting pots of money into the opposition. press reports say billions of dollars aimed at training locals to maintain security in iraq and restoring infrastructure in afghanistan aren't going to waste as critics attack plans to send u.s. police across on stable regions of the world. and russian police get closer to

solving the shocking mystery of more than two hundred human fetuses discovered in the woods but the source revealed as a state institution. coming up i'll go to the mall with a spotlight which focuses on most of the significant events in russia and across the world stay with our team. hello again the welcome to spotlight i've been to day my guest on the show is me a high chick set me high the further the humanity develops the more stressful our life becomes depression new roses and mirror on the happen a setback the society more and more most of all in the rich and developed parts of the world sometimes it seems there's no light at the end of the tunnel but psychologist don't waste time

and some even proposed me to make life better one of them is my guest on the show today mr me how i cheat sadly i research happening and creativity and author of the positive psychology. dr mihai chips and the highs described as the world's leading researcher of happiness and creativity and the age of sixteen he had an opportunity to travel to switzerland and listen to carl jung this influenced him and he decided to immigrate to america and study psychology nowadays may hide behind is best known for his theory of flow and mental state of pure motivation which makes people truly happy he's the author of over a hundred books and articles which have influenced many people in different fields among them former u.s. president bill clinton and former british prime minister tony blair.

hello and welcome to the show thank you very much for being with us with how the world. is because me ali is a look at the exact state of the maybe you can for us from the. central as we just heard. central in your research is that theory right could you explain explain what that is what is that optimal human experience you know. i should make clear that i was interested in studying happiness at the beginning i was interested. in creativity and i was studying people who have done to their work in the arts and sciences and so forth and one of the two that was remarkable to me was how people are scientists when they were

doing their work they were so completely i'm. engaged in what they were doing so focused so. that they didn't. notice how tired they were how hungry they were or. their problems from home disappeared. and they could do that for many hours and then afterwards. kind of return to normal life. notice start noticing start talking. and. this was when i talked to them and asked why how they worked and how the it they always said that was the best part of the job or career their profession was the ability to lose themselves completely in something that was so interesting and. nothing else mattered

ok so this i started studying i found that through a recession spore. it's. all kinds of people who do interesting things is this. period when they were completely outside of normal life and they were totally involved in what they were doing so. that was interesting but what then was more interesting to me was the question well is this only something creative people or superior kind of experience or can you. have this really in everyday life in the. normal people do they ever experience so we started studying this experience which i called people said it was so spontaneous effortless. and.

lo and behold it turns out that you can have. that feeling even if you are a worker or. even if you're blue collar if you're not hundred percent creative but you feel like like like building a house or. anything can be. yeah and. in anna karenina one of the great writers. the people in the grain with the side how they were completely at ease and they seemed like they were dancing and they were and then he. can't tell you how to learn. but once it becomes

for us. to. say. according to you happen this is not simply a flow. motional state nor even the experience of pleasure then then what has happened. you know what a friend of mine very good thing happened this is not wanting and not getting happiness is when you're about to get what you want what you want it like this. you know. that's what. you have to. crime's big face of slowly. has this not happy when they get through. this after each move should put my finger or he's still alive. that move

ok move. for better. that that goes from it or have. those moments of. small things you want it's like you play the piano you are happy to get to the end of the play. where in the. depression what i mean anyway if people try to characterize happens is the other the other side of depression depression has been dubbed the twenty first century plague and now spotlight the reports on some of the modern approaches to the condition. research is predict by twenty twenty depression will become the second major cause of death just behind heart disease find in refuge from the illness is quite a challenge because well being this is not translated into happens countries

traditionally perceived as good for living like belgium switzerland and finland are also among the twenty nations with the highest rates of suicide according to the world health organization the new technology that's meant to make life easier also appears to be a cause of more depression computers and gadgets i get an ever more sophisticated and people are getting ever more addicted and when there's addiction frustration is just around the corner with people carrying their whole world in this phone it can be ruined if the device suddenly dies. in their fight against psychiatric illnesses u.s. scientists have discovered a produce molecule that could lead to the development of a drug that might actually help erase traumatic memories the recent work we've done is really to look at not only how do you learn fear memory or emotional memory but also the possibility of

a racing or. reversing the learning and actually are racing a traumatic memory while scientists are working on finding the elusive major pill to cope with depression pharmaceutical remedies that are currently available are consumed in great quantities was over fourteen be learned u.s. dollars in annual sales antidepressants are the top selling therapeutic cost of prescription drugs in the u.s. already adopt the prozac nation. this really happen as you're talking about a quote involves the continual challenge to go beyond oneself as part of something greater than one's own self interest. then why so few people choose it why is it so difficult. for years for me i tried to convince people that i always meant literally values that make you happy. well it

should make you happy and it's so seems so obvious that the more you own the more you. get for yourself the work of what about your life is the happier you should be it's obvious so so it's not surprising that most people believe it but actually. the results are there shows. that we are really happy we can make something of our own when we can achieve something for ourselves that we want to. do well whether serious or growing a garden or doing whatever we choose to do that requires effort but it's under our control that's much better than having more and more things

to show friends look at the new car look at the helps a lot but well so. much what's more important for a person the in your happiness or the impression to make an impression that these are being well this is also. simple. you know material. goods. resources are important too but only up to a point once you have a reasonable comfortable dishonorable safe life. and you get respected you know you want the expect that's one thing your life that friendship respect to those important impression making an impression is part of that you know people think. but none of those how after

a certain point then you have to also do something that you feel yourself proud that you know that i. i want to cook grove the biggest moment is in the village. near high cheeks me high professor author of the positive psychology concept spotlight will be back shortly after the break so stay with us then. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harkin welcomes a big picture. everyone

wants to be pretty. whether they're an old lady on engine driver. but it might be quite tricky to get a fancy haircut. because you live out here in siberia. and the only way to get to you is by train. welcome back to spotlight i'm algor nabhan just a reminder that my guest in the city had today is me high cheek sent me high professor author of the positive psychology concept. let's talk about about

the concept and evolution you say you say they they they go together if you say human beings are and they you. unique opportunity the how the unique opportunity and obligation to become conscious but disciplined in evolution what does that mean and what does one have to do to take part in having the nation. well there is a saying that because. of all the life forms and on this planet somehow we. hundreds of thousands of years ago our ancestors started developing a new organ that was very underdeveloped before even in the apes the which is the brain of course and in the brain the.

whole new whole new way of living which is not just the life of the physical senses experience but also the life of the mind so this that we imagine things that don't take exist we hope for things that are not really the but we hope they will happen and so forth this is a whole new stage in the overall picture and part of it is. the direction of our brain. to try to experience things that make us. successful in this world and successful not. by social standards but by our own. desires and hopes. this.

whole new phenomena and in millions of years of the existence of our planet now because we have become aware of how our mind is working we have to decide what kind of future we want to have and it's in our now before evolution when directed by external forces. now to a large extent and humans able to control it. we can control the world be it water in the future whether it's going to be to how it's going whether the. pollution will suffocate us whether traffic will stop us from moving around all of these issues. in our hands.

and part of job is to make decisions that. future too. continue not to stop. but. this is very interesting that you mention that because two major concepts about what we should try to do with our life one concept say that we have to change the life around us now you're talking about the life of the brain seven other concepts said that we should just try to change ourselves at that is changing life around us because because this is how we see it that's why what's the main thing what should we do change a life or change change inside. have not come on trajectory really that can be worked together and in order to change the outside in a way that it will be good for us in the future we have to change as we have to

decide. to produce technologies that may make us happier but make us. more stressed or more bored with with ourselves i mean you should do all of the spills making pills that the press. that the knowledge of how absurd those who are already in the past but it doesn't help us to go forward we have to come firmest. people are sin and from your point of view or war one has to be a rebel one has to be two to be on the cutting edge of human evolution to succeed i think that a lot of conformity helps because our past is not everything this bad in the past i think our ancestors have discovered some incredibly important things like family life. belief in certain virtues

gratitude or forgiveness this virtues. have. evolve in the past to lead the people's way of thinking are still very important and we shouldn't just throw them away because they're all so evolution builds on the past and part of what we have to decide is what what in the past we should discard because not help with us and what is worth keeping and building from your point of view what are the main obstacles on the way out of in the ocean. well i think part of the main. server are but one is the believe that we can force things in an environment in a social environment to. do what we right now and

the kind of struggle for power struggle for money starving for. which nobody gets happier from that not the people that power and certainly not those who are under it. and the same with world people want to get richer and richer i'm not making themselves happy and they contribute to the protests of the rest of society so the question of understanding that you have. you can be happy by youth without having much. much money. all that well. so clear it is that so you have to learn to live as part of a system not you top of the listen while you did this one was just

saying that it crossed my mind that we have always thought of ourselves as people and mankind to be on top of the system to be the final product of badly when we talk about evolution we talk of darwinism there was evolution and finally that was me as the final product but you say that the evolution is continuing and we're in the process of it so where are we heading what's the final goal on this planet if ever if we if men are not the final product so we're told me and maybe man of certain types of men who don't force things. one to control every man who. understand their role is to. the planet got to be a better place what it is that means protect animals.

warmer and everything else that's not your it's a big responsibility a big but it's part of it and that's why i think there's even more but speaking i feel sure you often say that humanity is avoiding to war complexity but doesn't the rise of the pop culture and everything in music and indeed in literature in painting fainting in a human relations doesn't it contradict your theory is the becoming more and more simplistic and pleasures i becoming more and more simplistic. they were always like that well it's been always like that and this constant struggle every generation has to decide. how can we be a little bit more complex but understanding. the

easy way is always the most popular way and and so it's a struggle to keep that complexity and every generation even if it adds a little bit i mean we have achieved a lot compared to the middle as compared to the others in terms. of. pleasure the type of things that give pleasure the type of things. that we don't do to each other or to and i'm also plans of. rehab we have. but. we have to always be watching. what's better fit for human evolution the scientific rational point of view all this place for religion therefore mr i think. science cannot be ignored but

the point i think scientists lead to pay more attention to the spirit of. what used to recall the so all. the. could. be should be religious not religious. it should be more spiritual. religion is more why i'm asking is that is that most of the choice churches they are strictly against sophisticated sex but if we talk about pleasures in life according to you sex should be sophisticated because that humanity should become more sophisticated so is this pleasure which is probably the biggest pleasure in the world be simple or sophisticated i think in every kind of civilization so this became more and more sophisticated and that it

included. germ palmer's poetry our good. elegant. legrand. very early but in terms of the relation between. the. the. so much worse. trend these. have to do with the refinement. with making it a more spiritual. process you know thank you thank you very much for being with us it was a pleasure and a privilege to have us here then just to remind you that my guest on the show was me hike chick sent me hi professor quarter of the positive psychology and that's

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