Happiest places & WWDWWD
Why we do what we do
Time Famine
Take back your time
Digital age
100

Thriving

Those individuals that rate themselves very happy (at least 8/10) who believe they’ll be happy in 5 years.

100

Autonomous vs. Controlled Motivation

Reduce intrinsic motivation: threats and competition

Increase intrinsic motivation: choice, sensitivity offering non-controlling rewards, non-pressured winners of competition.

100

Time crunch, time thieves, time deepening, time estrangement

Crunch - feeling like there are too many things, too little time

Thieves - technology for example

Deepening - multitasking

Estrangement - Time gets away from you (lose track of time)

100

Children's lost time

Since 1980’s children have lost 12 hours of free time per week, because of:

  • Academic preparation
  • Organized sports
  • Media use
  • Childhood obesity
  • Highly scheduled kids
100

Connected experience

Practical need, potential savings in time and energy, remembered relationships

200

What makes world’s happiest places, happy? (7)

  • Community
  • Workplace
  • Social life
  • Financial life
  • Home
  • Self
  • Thriving children
200

Intrinsic Motivation provides

Learning, creativity, problem solving, richer experience, better conceptual understanding, greater creativity, and improved problem solving.

200

Accelerating pace of time

Doing too many things in a day and the day feels like it passes by faster

200

Merry go round metaphor

  • Centrifugal forces – The faster your life and family move, the further apart your family gets from each other
  • Desire to maintain pace
  • Unknown dangers – of falling off
200

Significant experiences enhanced by technology

  • Nurture relationships
  • Feed emotional, social, and spiritual hungers
  • Think creatively
  • Self-expression
300

Denmark, Singapore, Nuevo Leon (Mexico), San Luis Obispo

Denmark - World's happiness all star

Singapore - Manufacturing a happy nation?

Nuevo Leon - Secret sauce of happiness - culture of eating

San Luis - Real American dream

300

Self-determination Continuum

Impersonal (a motivation, non-regulation, nonintentional, non-valuing, incompetence, lack of control)

External (external regulation, compliance, external rewards, punishments)

Somewhat external (introjected regulation - internalizations that take the form of "should's" and "ought's" - voices in head that come from outside and issue orders, self-control, ego-involvement - people's feelings of worth depend on specific outcomes, internal rewards and punishments)

Somewhat internal (identified regulation, congruence, awareness, synthesis with self)

Internal (intrinsic motivation, intrinsic regulation, interest, enjoyment, inherent satisfaction)

300

Overwork in America

Number of hours per week: 40. (What would take 40 hours in 1990, only takes us 29 hours today). America has more unused vacation days than any other industrialized country. America does not require paid family leave.

300
Elder Ballard and Brigham Young quotes
Ballard - A life out of balance is like a tire out of balance

Young - 8 Sleep, 8 Work, 8 Recreation

300

Loneliness vs. Solitude

Loneliness - pain of being alone

Solitude - it's nice to be alone

400

Inclusive Design

  • Recognize Exclusion
  • Solve for one, extend to many
  • Learn from diversity
400

Self-determination Theory

A theory concerned with supporting our natural or intrinsic tendencies to behave in effective and healthy ways.
400

Exacerbating the pace of our lives

  • Overwork (forced overtime)
  • Overscheduling
  • Commuting
  • Time cost of “stuff”
  • Media
  • Unpaid labor
  • Housework (cleanliness, church callings)
400

American Association of Pediatrics (AAP) recommendations

  • Identify what is appropriate for your child
  • Clarify realistic expectations for college admission
  • Unscheduled spontaneous child/parent time is very productive
  • Successful traits in children result from parental love, role modeling, and guidance, not extracurricular or academic commitments
  • Balance interests and activities
400

Life in connected mode

  • Intense time deepening
  • A pre-occupation with what’s going on “out there”
  • Need for external validation
500
Skinner and Behavioralism

People are fundamentally passive and will respond only with rewards or punishment. No room for intrinsic motivation.

500

Basic Psychological needs

Autonomy - independence

Competence - ability to do something

Relatedness - connection

500
Impacts of Time poverty
  • Public health (overstress weakens immune system)
  • Environmental harm (we don’t recycle, we’re traveling all the time)
  • Volunteerism
500

Changing pace

  • Time diaries and examinations
  • Take stock of finances
  • Optimal self – personal inventory
  • Recovery time – sleep
  • Realistic expectations
  • Shabbat – Hebrew word for Sabbath meaning pause or cease
  • Simplicity
  • Eat food slow
  • Support group
  • Early rising
  • Scriptures
  • Stillness
500

Problems with over-connectedness

  • Attention deficit trait
  • Partial attention
  • Internet addiction disorder
  • Nomophobia – fear of being without your phone
  • Screen time is replacing face time in family and personal relationships
  • Interruptions and recovery time take up to 28% of working day
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