March 3-8: The Happiness Project Weekly Cyber-Group Discussion Topic

Did anyone record his or her Personal Commandments online in Rubin's Happiness Toolbox at www.happinessprojecttoolbox.com? Has anyone thought about starting a blog?

How are your reading log shaping up? In the reading log note vocabulary and references you do not know. Look the words up in a dictionary, use the word in a sentence. Paraphrase the sentence with the word. Note the page where it is used. Include a brief summary of key ideas or concepts with corresponding page numbers.

List characters as they come into the story. Develop a profile on the person. Rubin is a character as well. What do we know about her so far?

First half of discussion:

Resolutions report--how is everyone doing?

Second half of the meeting:

Discuss the Second Splendid Truth:

One of the best ways to make yourself happy is to make other people happy. One of the best ways to make other people happy is to be happy yourself. 

Do you agree that this is a helpful framework to think about happiness? What aspects of life are covered in the four elements? Do your resolutions focus on a particular element--such as eliminating bad feeling?

Most people emphasize the first half; do you believe the second half is also true? Does the Second Splendid Truth mean that we have a "duty to be happy?"

Last part of the discussion

What do you think about the book so far? What did you find most compelling about the reading for this week? Everyone should be between August and October (smile).

If you have not been getting responses from your group, send to me and make sure we talk about this in class Saturday.