Name: 蕭恩·艾肯《孩子們的幸福優勢》 (Shawn Achor - The Happiness Advantage for Children)
Uploaded: 2026-03-08T09:56:03.000Z
Duration: 7 min 9 s

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So I think part of the issue that we see in a lot of schools and our education system is that a lot of these students are picking up on something that we have really put into our companies, which is if you work harder, you'll be more successful, and

所以我覺得我們在很多學校和教育體系裡看到的問題之一，就是很多學生學到了我們公司裡一直強調的觀念：如果你更努力工作，你就會更成功，

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So you just put your nose to the grindstone, get good grades, then eventually, once you get into a good school, then you'll be happier, or once you get a good job, then you'll feel happier.

所以你只要埋頭苦幹，拿到好成績，然後最終，一旦你進入一所好學校，你就會更快樂，或者一旦你找到一份好工作，你就會感覺更快樂。

The problem is that that formula, I think, actually decreases our brain's potential.

問題是，我認為那個公式其實降低了我們大腦的潛力。

It decreases our ability to respond and adapt to the world, and

它降低了我們應對和適應世界的能力，而且

actually lowers not only our happiness levels, but our success levels.

不僅降低了我們的快樂程度，也降低了我們的成功程度。

We were taught this because we were told that if you delay gratification, sometimes our test scores might improve, but

我們被這樣教導，是因為我們被告知，如果你延遲滿足，有時候我們的考試成績可能會提高，但是

What we're really interested is how in the moment, can we reverse the formula?

我們真正感興趣的是，在當下，我們如何能夠 reverse the formula？

How do we make it so that we feel that we can cultivate happiness in the present?

我們要如何做到，讓我們感覺到我們可以在當下 cultivate happiness？

Through our educational practices, through the ways that we teach positive habits, even through our mindset.

透過我們的educational practices，透過我們教導positive habits的方式，甚至透過我們的mindset。

The reason for that is because the formula we currently have doesn't work.

那樣做的原因是因為我們現在採用的formula是行不通的。

Because as soon as we have a success, our brain changes the goalpost of what success looks like, and

因為一旦我們獲得成功，我們的大腦就會改變成功的goalpost，然後

then we don't actually get the happiness we were promised.

我們實際上並沒有得到承諾的快樂。

而且這個循環會一直持續下去，

there's no end to it as soon as you get a good job, as soon as you retire, as soon as you hit your sales target.

一旦你找到好工作、退休、達到sales target，就沒完沒了。

So what we really want to do from very early on is to teach students, teach children, a different formula.

所以我們從一開始就想做的是教導學生、教導孩子一個不同的formula。

And that formula is, if you cultivate happiness in the present, if you're connecting and creating deep social support with your friends, if you cultivate optimism, if you change the way you view stress from stress as a threat, to stress as a challenge, it turns out the formula actually works.

而那個formula是，如果你在當下cultivate happiness，如果你和朋友建立連結並創造深厚的社會支持，如果你cultivate optimism，如果你改變看待stress的方式，從stress as a threat轉變為stress as a challenge，結果發現這個formula其實是有效的。

We can raise your levels of success, but your happiness levels will remain the same.

我們可以提升你的成功程度，但你的快樂程度會保持不變。

If we raise your levels of happiness first, we can really see what the human brain is capable of.

如果我們優先提升你的快樂程度，我們就能真正看到人類大腦的潛力。

I think there's two things that we really need to teach students and educators alike to be able to do.

我認為有兩件事是我們真的需要教導學生和教育者都要學會的。

First of all, I think we need to create a mindset shift.

首先，我認為我們需要創造一個mindset shift。

And I think it starts with realizing we need to prioritize happiness and positivity in the present.

我認為這始於意識到我們需要在當下prioritize happiness and positivity。

Once we realize that we need to create that, instead of thinking, oh, as soon as I get a good grade, then we can start talking about happiness.

一旦我們意識到我們需要創造這個，而不是想著「喔，我一拿到好成績，我們就可以開始談論快樂了」。

If we can start doing it in the present moment, what happens is you start to get a shift where people are not focused on being reactive to whatever workload is coming in, whatever papers they have to be working on, you know, whatever stresses they're feeling at school, they're actually changing where their brain is focused and their brain is focused on how do I move forward, how do I connect with other people?

如果我們能在當下就開始做，結果就是你會看到一個轉變，人們不再專注於對任何進來的workload、要寫的papers、學校裡的任何stress做出reactive的反應，他們實際上正在改變大腦的焦點，大腦會專注於「我該如何前進？我該如何與他人連結？」

Which actually raises our test scores and our success rates.

這實際上能提升我們的考試成績和成功率。

But the second thing I think we need to do is you can create a mindset shift, but

但第二件事我認為我們需要做的，是你雖然可以創造一個mindset shift，

it won't stick unless there's a behavioral change as well.

但除非有行為上的改變，否則它不會持久。

So what we really want to do is teach first the educators to do it, but

所以我們真正想做的，是先教導教育者這麼做，然後

then teach the educators to help the children to be able to do this is to create positive habits.

再教導教育者如何幫助孩子們做到這一點，那就是創造positive habits。

Just as we eat every day, because we know that eating will give us the fuel to be able to perform while in school, and

就像我們每天都要吃飯一樣，因為我們知道吃飯能提供我們在學校所需的能量，

we need to sleep, we forget to do some really important things we know now based on science have huge impacts upon our ability to learn and process information and create memories.

而我們也需要睡眠，但我們卻忘了做一些科學證實對學習、處理資訊和記憶力有巨大影響的重要事情。

So we've been looking at these habits, we've been looking at short habits that could be used in the classroom and used by educators to create these positive changes in they could be as simple as starting the class each day with having the students write down or say out loud three things that they're grateful for.

所以我們一直在研究這些習慣，研究能在課堂上使用、讓教育者創造這些正面改變的短期習慣，可以像每天上課開始時，讓學生寫下或說出三件他們感恩的事一樣簡單。

It has to be new each day, the things that they're grateful for.

But what happens is their brain starts at positive.

但結果是他們的大腦會從正面開始。

But however your brain starts, your brain actually gets stuck.

但無論你的大腦如何開始，它實際上都會卡住。

So as they go and look at their work, their brain is thinking about the strengths that they have, the optimism levels they have, what is actually going to move them forward.

所以當他們去看他們的工作時，他們的大腦會思考他們擁有的優勢、他們的樂觀程度，以及什麼能真正推動他們前進。

So we can look at these habits, gratitudes, journaling about positive experiences, exercise for 15 minutes a day, meditation for just two minutes.

所以我們可以看看這些習慣，感恩、寫下正面經驗、每天運動15分鐘、冥想兩分鐘。

While not only creating a practice of meditation, which is so important, but

這不僅能培養冥想的習慣，這點非常重要，但

also allows us to go from multitasking, which we do so often at school and in life, down to single tasking for a little bit.

也能讓我們從多工處理，這是在學校和生活中我們常做的事，轉為短暫地專注於單一任務。

What happens is then as our brain is responding to a world, our stress levels go down.

接著，當我們的大腦開始回應世界時，我們的壓力水準就會下降。

The people around us, their stress levels go down, our happiness levels rise.

我們身邊的人，他們的壓力水準也會下降，我們的快樂水準會上升。

Or even writing a positive email or a note once a day to somebody in your support group.

或者甚至每天寫一封正面的電子郵件或訊息給你的支持團體成員。

All of these things have significant impacts that we've been researching in positive psychology.

所有這些事情都有重大的影響，這也是我們在正向心理學中一直研究的。

That not only makes me happier in the present, which we could do with a chocolate bar, it's about making how do we create long term changes to the way these students view the world.

這不僅能讓我在當下更快樂，這點我們可以透過一塊巧克力來達成，而是關於如何創造長期的改變，讓這些學生看待世界的方式有所不同。

And we found that these two minutes can make all the Difference.

我們發現這兩分鐘可以帶來巨大的差異。

Parents have a unique role because when I talk to educators, they oftentimes tell me that they are doing the right thing, but

家長扮演著獨特的角色，因為我跟教育工作者談話時，他們常常告訴我，他們正在做對的事情，但是

they just need the parents to get on the same wavelength.

他們只是需要家長們能有相同的想法。

When I talk to parents, they were like, we've been doing all this stuff at home.

我跟家長們談話時，他們說，我們在家裡已經做了所有這些事情了。

We just need the educators to get on the same wavelength.

我們只需要教育工作者們想法一致。

What I would like is to have everyone on the same page.

I like to expose them all to these discoveries in positive psychology that show that happiness actually an extraordinary advantage for these students if we cultivate in the present.

我喜歡讓他們接觸到這些正向心理學的發現，這些發現顯示，如果我們在當下培養快樂，快樂其實是這些學生的一大優勢。

But oftentimes for parents, we think, you know, I'll be out speaking to a company, and

但對家長來說，我們常常會覺得，你知道，我可能會去一家公司演講，然後

the parents will be like, oh, I can't wait to do some of these habits with my kids, to get my kids to do these three gratitudes each day.

家長們會說，喔，我等不及要跟我的孩子們一起做這些習慣了，讓我的孩子們每天做這三件感恩的事。

So when we go to sleep at night, I'm going to make them say three things they're grateful for.

所以當我們晚上睡覺時，我會讓他們說出三件他們感恩的事情。

Something that would be even more helpful is that the parent modeled it right.

更能幫上忙的是，家長能夠以身作則。

So instead of the child just doing the three things they're grateful for, the parent starts by showing, hey, this is so important to me that every time I have dinner with you, I'm going to tell you three things I'm grateful for.

所以，與其讓孩子們自己說出三件感恩的事，家長應該先示範，嘿，這對我來說非常重要，每次我跟你吃晚餐時，我都會告訴你三件我感恩的事。

Or when we go to sleep at night, I'm going to tell you three things that are important about this day.

或者當我們晚上睡覺時，我會告訴你三件今天重要的事情。

We know from the research that we can actually literally rewire parts of the brain to become more optimistic if we practice this for long enough periods of time.

我們從研究中得知，只要我們練習足夠長的時間，我們就能真正地重塑大腦的部分區域，讓自己變得更樂觀。

What we really want is the parents to not only get their children to do some of these positive habits, the gratitudes around the dinner table, the writing a positive note each day to somebody, you know, doing meditation for two minutes a day, doing exercise, going a walk.

我們真正希望的是，父母不只讓孩子們養成這些 positive habits，像是在餐桌上分享感恩的事、每天寫張正向的便條給別人、每天做兩分鐘的冥想、運動、散步等等。

As a family, what we really want is not only for them to teach the habits, but

身為一個家庭，我們真正希望的不只是教導這些習慣，

And when we found that you get not only everyone in the family getting on the same wavelength, but

當我們發現不只全家人想法一致，

you actually get a cascade where the positivity one makes it easier for the other person to become more positive.

還會產生一種連鎖效應，讓一個人的 positivity 讓另一個人更容易變得更 positive。

As the parent becomes more peaceful and calm and positive and compassionate, it's easier for the child to respond and to do these things as well.

當父母變得更平靜、更鎮定、更 positive、更有同情心時，孩子們就更容易回應，也更容易做到這些事。

So what I would love to see is that if we got the teachers, the educators, and

所以我希望看到的是，如果我們讓老師、教育工作者，

the students all doing the same positive habits and believing that positivity is important in the present, what we'd see is a very different future.

還有學生們都一起養成這些 positive habits，並且相信 positivity 在當下是重要的，我們將會看到一個截然不同的未來。