Don T Worry Be Gloomy Analysis
Happiness is critical to anyone’s life, but some scientists say that everyone should be happy most of the time.
Today, positive psychology believes that emotions, such as anger and sadness, are harmful to a person’s life overall, but people need emotions to express themselves fully and protect themselves from harm. In Susan David’s article
“Don’t Worry Be Gloomy,” she reports on how negative emotions can actually be good emotions because afterward, people can be happier than before. In Sharon Begley’s article “Happiness: Enough Already,” she remarks on how sadness is actually good for the human body and mind. Although scientists say that people should always strive for happiness and that they have found ways to increase happiness, emotions that put people into a
“bad mood,” such as sadness and anger, help them to do many tasks that happiness prevents. …show more content…
Susan David states in her article “Don’t Worry Be Gloomy” that “‘negative’ moods summon a more attentive, accommodating thinking style that leads you to really examine facts in a fresh and creative way. It’s when we’re in a bit of a funk that we focus and dig down” (125). Negative emotions allow people to focus on what they are doing and think in a more creative way. When individuals are feeling negative emotions they tend to dig deep into their mind for a solution to the problem that they are facing. People in history achieved greatness when they were in a melancholy mood. In Sharon Begley’s article “Happiness: Enough Already,” she states that “Abraham Lincoln was not hobbled by his dark moods bordering on depression, and Beethoven composed his later works in a melancholic funk. Vincent van Gogh, Emily
Today, positive psychology believes that emotions, such as anger and sadness, are harmful to a person’s life overall, but people need emotions to express themselves fully and protect themselves from harm. In Susan David’s article
“Don’t Worry Be Gloomy,” she reports on how negative emotions can actually be good emotions because afterward, people can be happier than before. In Sharon Begley’s article “Happiness: Enough Already,” she remarks on how sadness is actually good for the human body and mind. Although scientists say that people should always strive for happiness and that they have found ways to increase happiness, emotions that put people into a
“bad mood,” such as sadness and anger, help them to do many tasks that happiness prevents. …show more content…
Susan David states in her article “Don’t Worry Be Gloomy” that “‘negative’ moods summon a more attentive, accommodating thinking style that leads you to really examine facts in a fresh and creative way. It’s when we’re in a bit of a funk that we focus and dig down” (125). Negative emotions allow people to focus on what they are doing and think in a more creative way. When individuals are feeling negative emotions they tend to dig deep into their mind for a solution to the problem that they are facing. People in history achieved greatness when they were in a melancholy mood. In Sharon Begley’s article “Happiness: Enough Already,” she states that “Abraham Lincoln was not hobbled by his dark moods bordering on depression, and Beethoven composed his later works in a melancholic funk. Vincent van Gogh, Emily