PHL 199 - Philosophy of SuccessWeek Two: What should I be doing?

• Success Journal - 500 words per week checked off every Tuesday in class or online after 11:55pm

• Share Success Book Review choice and add to Success Book Wiki

• Begin Success Plan - do values and goals section• Reading on Happiness in Moodle• Apply reading to Success plan - how are you

planning for your present and future happiness?

What is Success?

• Actualizing your innate potential as a human being

• Objective: human nature

• Subjective: people prefer different degrees of objective goods

What is Success?

• Living consciously and intentionally– In full awareness of what is and what’s possible

– Actively vs. passively

– Becoming aware of or consciously choosing what matters most to you - your values

– Selecting goals based on those values

– Choosing the most effective means to achieve those goals

What is Success?

• Recognizing the value trade-offs

• Resolving value conflicts

• Addressing character flaws

• Recognizing and developing talents

• Developing necessary skills to achieve goals

• Developing virtues: the habits of success

Happiness

• The most basic part of human nature

• Pleasure and the absence of pain

• Associations and how they affect happiness

• Eliminating dysfunctional associations and developing new ones

• Focus

• Detatchment

Happiness

• A Strategy for Serenity: Action and Acceptance

• Self Talk

• Language

• Taking Control of Your Own Happiness