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hello again they're walking to spotlight i'm french they my guest on the show is me hi chick said me hi the further the humanity develops the more stressful our life becomes depression new roses and mirror on the happen this attack 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 psychologists 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 said he how i research of happiness and creativity and author of the positive psychology thoughts.

dr mihai chips and the high is 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 me high and high is best known for his theory of flow and mental state of pure motivation which makes people truly happy he is author of over one hundred books and articles which have influenced many people in different fields among them are 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 from hollywood . chicks and me ali is a look at the exact state of the maybe you're going for you 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 and 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 it 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 were when i talked to them and asked why how they worked and how did it they always say 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 the group of musicians for. 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 but they were good.

at that most 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 your. 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 more 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. i want to feel. can't really have to learn it. but once it becomes i. say. according to you happen this is not simply a flow. motional state nor even the experience of pleasure then what is. you know what i find of my very good thing happen this

is not one thing 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 usually. you have to for. crimes big face of slowly. this is not happy when they get. this after each move should put my finger or he's still alive. that move ok move. for better. that that goes for me to have. those moments of. small things you want it's like. you are happy to get to the end of the.

happy where in the. well well depression well 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 predicted 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 translating to happen as 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 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 one phone it can be ruined if the device suddenly dies. in their fight against psychiatric illnesses u.s. scientists have discovered a prudent 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 versing 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 with over fourteen billion u.s.

dollars in annual sales antidepressants are the top selling therapeutic cost of prescription drugs in the u.s. already daubed the prozac nation. the happiness you're talking about quote involves the continual challenge to go beyond oneself as part of something greater than one's own self interest well well then why so few people choose it why is it so difficult. for you for me i tried to convince people that i always meant literal values that make you happy. well it should make you happy. it's so seems so obvious the more you own the more you. get for yourself the work of. the happy. so thought surprising that most people believe it but

actually. shows. that really happy we can make something of our own. we can achieve something for ourselves that we want to. do whether it's 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 this that helps a lot but. much more important than the in your happiness or the impression to make an impression that he's been 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. and respected you know you want respect that's one thing your life that friendship respect to those important impression make an impression is part of the people think. but none of those how after. you have also the thing that you feel yourself proud of. i. i wanted to grow the biggest moment is in the village and i'm going to do that says new high cheeks me high professor author of the positive psychology concept

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application to self choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorites from outside the t.v. is not required to watch our team all you need is your mobile device to watch r.t. any time and. welcome back to spotlight i am al gore novel and just a reminder that my guest in the studio we had today is me high cheek sent me high professor author of the positive psychology concepts like let's talk about about a concept and evolution you say you say that they go together if you say him and beings are and the 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 have aleutian. well there is this because. of all the the life forms on this planet and somehow. hundreds of thousands of years ago. started the role of 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 of physical senses and experiences but also the life of the mind so this that is we imagine things that don't think exist really hope or things that i'm not

really ready at but we hope they will happen and so for this is a whole new stage in the world and part of it is. evolution the direction of our brain goes to try to experience things that make us feel alive successful in this world and successful not. by social standards that but by our own. desires and hopes and this whole new. the whole new phenomena and in millions of years of the existence of our planet not 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 or whether it's going to be too hard on. whether. 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 the. best 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 talk 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. can predict really 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 don't 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 be hard people or sin and from your point of view or or one has to be a rebel one has to to to be on the cutting edge of human evolution to succeed i think a lot of formal 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 forgiveness these virtues. have. the evolve in the past to lead the people's way of thinking i was 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 us and what is more 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 we can force things in the environment in the 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 not the people that power and certainly not

those who are under it and the same with wealth people want to get richer and richer i'm not making themselves happy and they contribute to the happiness of the rest of society so the question of understanding that you have. you can be happy by yourself without having much money much money. all the wealth and the. security that so you you have to learn to live as part of a system not you top of. listen well you did this when it was just saying that i had crossed my mind that we have always thought of ourselves as people as 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 there

was me as the final product but you say that the evolution is continuing and we're in the process 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 where are we. maybe man of. men who. force. one to control every man who. understand. how. the planet. to be a better place than what it is that means protect animals. warmer and everything else that's not your that's a big responsibility big time 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 evolving to more

complexity but doesn't the rise of the pop culture and everything in music and in the end literature and pain and pain take in human relations doesn't it contradict your theory is the becoming more and more simplistic and pleasures are becoming more and more simplistic. they were always like that. 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 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 is compared to the others in terms of. level of. pleasure the type of things that give pleasure the type of things. that we don't do to each other or to adam also plans of. rehab we have. but it's a concept. 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. i think scientists lead to pay more attention to the spirit of. what used to recall the so all.

the. scientists 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 sex became more and more sophisticated and in the sense that it includes. germ palmers poetry are good. elegant. legrand. period but in terms of the relation between.

the. the. show much of the worst. trannies. 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 hi chicks sent me hi professor quarter of the positive psychology and that's it for now from all of us here if you want to have yourselves spotlight or have someone in mind so you think i should bring him into the studio drop me a spotlight will be back with more recent comments on what's going on then and outside russia until then stay on r.t.

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