Pursuing Good Life

I decided to read Pursuing the Good Life: 100 Reflections on Positive Psychology by Christopher Peterson. As this book has 100 reflections I decided to only pick one sections of this book to discuss. Throughout this report I will discuss Positive Emotions and Experiences and thirteen different areas of positive emotions and positive experiences. Part of a good life is experiencing things that make you feel good and happy, such as, pleasure, satisfaction, engagement with friends or family. Throughout this book I have focused on things that I do everyday and did not realize what I was doing. A topic in Positive Emotions and Experiences, one of the questions were, “What do you think about in the Shower?” Well I survey was done and a strange outcome came out. According to facts most people thought about a to-do list of …show more content…
Well to start things off savoring is a strategy that people use to enhance and sustain their “feel good” feelings and savoring contributes to a healthy well-being. People who savor (the not so wealthy) are more likely to share positive experiences such as birthdays, anniversaries, Mothers day, Fathers day, and so on. People who savor more will take pictures and celebrate and enjoy the moment with the ones they love. While on the other hand, people who do not savor (the wealthy) will just continue this occasions as normal, “Happy Birthday Sweetie, have a nice day, here is your present,” and continue the day. There was another study of people eating a chocolate bar. They picked a handful of people from the middle class and another handful from the upper class. The people from the middle class sat quietly and slowly ate their chocolate and letting it melt in their mouths as they enjoyed it. While the upper class paid no attention and ate it as normal as any other food. This proved that people with a lower income savored things more than people with a higher