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WEEK 15
HAPPINESS

Pre-competency Checklist

Activity 1:
a. Make an ACROSTIC of the word Happiness

Happiness is where home is,

Any place you can call your own.
Purpose in your life,
People who don’t make you feel alone,
Ignorance of insignificant drama,
No fear of the unknown.
Emotions expressed freely, unconditional love,
Small gestures worth millions shown.
Seeing life with the eyes of a child.

b. How do you really happy?

 When I am achieving something or I have reach my goal and also, when I
make my mom happy and proud of me.

Discussion Board

1. What are the different concepts of Happiness?

 Aristotle concept of happiness, Socrates concept of happiness, Happiness
and needs according to Abraham Maslow, Dalai Lama about happiness,
Razmik Aydinyan about happiness, Bertrand Russell about a happy man,
Maxwell Maltz about happiness, and Lev landau about happiness.

2. Whose concept of Happiness do you really be convinced? Why?

 I agree with the concept of Aristotle about happiness. He said that happiness
consists in achieving, through the course of a whole lifetime, all the goods,
 health, wealth, knowledge, friends, etc. that lead to the perfection of human
nature and to the enrichment of human life.

3. What are situations where you experience happiness?

 There are many times that I experienced happiness. I consider everyday from
the moment I woke up is a happiness. I am happy when I am with my family,
and when I am surrounded by my friends that truly loves me. One of my
happiness also is when I buy a new book for my collection and when I am
reading during my free time.

Post-competency Checklist
I. MULTIPLE CHOICE:

1. A concept of Happiness where most of the people agreed upon is the____

A. Happiness Health square
B. Happiness and Meaning of Life by Irvin Yalom
C. Pyramid level of Needs by Abraham Maslow
D. Happiness and existential needs by Erich Fromm

2. A definition of happiness is according to him is a work of soul in virtue completeness

and it comes in time due to self cultivation___
A. Aristotle
B. Dalai Lama
C. Razmik Aydinyan
D. Bertrand Russell

3. Everyone becomes happy as long as he decided to be and is completely found in____

External satisfaction
Internal fullness and completeness
Material Accomplishment
Peaceful mind and environment

II. ESSAY:

1. How do you reconcile the concept of happiness presented by different authorities with
your concept based on your experience?

Aristotle concept about happiness says that it is a work of soul in virtue

completeness. Happiness comes in time due to self-cultivation. Socrates says that
happiness is obtained through human effort, harmonizing the different parts of
one’s soul, gaining rational control over desires, self-knowledge, need to know
what is good for you, generosity, and virtue. Dalai Lama’s concept is the main
motivation of our life is aspiration and happiness. Razmik Aydinyan says about
happiness is it is the satisfaction due to possession of benefits. On the other hand,
Bertrand Russell says that a happy man is the one who lives unprejudiced with free
independent affections and huge range of interests. The personality of such man is
directed towards the external world. Maxwell Maltz concept of happiness is that the
key for happy life is an adequate and true image of yourself. While Lev Landau
concept of happiness is the man is obliged and even must to be happy. Happiness
is enjoyment of life, love, work, and communication with people.

To sum it up, happiness is a choice. We can be found the real happiness in

our heart. Based on my own experienced, I find happiness when I am achieving
something or I achieved one of my goals in life and making my mom proud of every
achievement that I made. Happiness is when I am with my family and when I am
surrounded by my friends and someone that truly loves me. Buying books, eating,
shopping clothes, and fangirling also makes me happy. That’s how I find happiness
in life.