Positive Psychology: How to learn any language in six months: Chris Lonsdale at TEDxLingnanUn...

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How to learn any language in six months: Chris Lonsdale at TEDxLingnanUn...

Published on Nov 20, 2013

Chris Lonsdale is Managing Director
of Chris Lonsdale & Associates, a company established to catalyse
breakthrough performance for individuals and senior teams. In addition,
he has also developed a unique and integrated approach to learning that
gives people the means to acquire language or complex technical
knowledge in short periods of time.

Jan-21-2014 Update. The video transcripts are now available via the following links:

English Only:
http://www.the-third-ear.com/files/TE...

English + Chinese Translation:
http://www.kungfuenglish.com/files/TE...

Link: http://youtu.be/d0yGdNEWdn0

Positive Psychology given credence by Academia:

Positive psychology is the scientific study of the strengths and virtues that enable individuals and communities to thrive.

Commentators on the subject Martin Seligman and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, note that:

"The field of positive psychology at the subjective level is about valued subjective experiences: well-being, contentment, and satisfaction (in the past); hope and optimism (for the future); and flow and happiness (in the present).

At the individual level, it is about positive individual traits: the capacity for love and vocation, courage, interpersonal skill, aesthetic sensibility, perseverance, forgiveness, originality, future mindedness, spirituality, high talent, and wisdom.

At the group level, it is about the civic virtues and the institutions that move individuals toward better citizenship: responsibility, nurturance, altruism, civility, moderation,tolerance, and work ethic."