Essential QuestionThe decisions we make throughout our life are strongly influenced by one question; What makes us happy? However, for something that is such an integral part of our life, we spend very little time trying to understand what happiness really is. The “Seven Doors To Happiness” project is designed to delve into four of the core concepts of what really makes people happy: Community Building, Positive Psychology, Passion & Purpose, and Self Awareness. This project sets out to become an extension of our own personal interests and give us an opportunity to really understand the meaning behind the word, “Happy”.
What is the meaning behind?After reading and analyzing the book, “The Happiness Project” by Gretchen Rubin; we decided to go the extra mile and follow Gretchen’s advice (as she suggest at the end of the book) and begin our own Happiness Project.
Adding on, The ‘Project Happiness’ organization introduced us to the concept of “the seven doors to happiness”, which are designed to help individuals access their inner awareness, inner joy, and inner strength. Each door opens up to characteristic values which are meant to help connect us with our core capacities. Listed below are the different values and focus’ that ‘Project Happiness’ focuses on.
Finally, the documentary “Happy” showed us people from around the world who attested to being truly content. Professionals in the psychology of happiness enlightened us about what all these “happy” people had in common. All these factors have contributed to the inspiration for our externship project. We have taken parts of each of these sources and applied them to our own personal interests to create a fun, educational, and eye-opening project. |