How we fundamentally misunderstand ‘well-being’ | Mary Helen Immordino-Yang
Summary
TLDRThe script explores well-being as a balance and flexibility to manage oneself, rather than just the absence of illness. It emphasizes that well-being is both a capacity and a state, shaped by personal actions and mindset. Practical strategies for enhancing well-being include prioritizing relationships, controlling social media use, enjoying meaningful activities with loved ones, reflecting on life's purpose, and giving to others. The modern understanding of well-being involves agency, community connection, purposefulness, and constructing stories of deep connection and meaning.
Takeaways
- 🧠 Well-being is not just the absence of disease or mental illness; it's about achieving balance and managing oneself effectively.
- 🧘 Well-being is both a capacity and a state, which can be influenced by an individual's actions and mental dispositions.
- 🧐 Neuroscience and social science contribute to our understanding of the origins and contributions to well-being.
- 🤝 Prioritizing quality relationships with those we care about is a strategic way to support our own well-being.
- 🚫 Controlling social media use and avoiding addictive behaviors can help maintain a reflective and meaningful state of being.
- 📚 Constructing meaningful narratives about our experiences can provide insight into our well-being and how to improve it.
- 🎯 Engaging in activities we enjoy with people we cherish can enhance our sense of well-being.
- 🤔 Taking time for reflection helps us understand our purpose and enact it in our lives.
- 💖 Giving to others and being engaged with our community can reap benefits that contribute to our well-being.
- 🌟 A modern understanding of well-being involves considering agency, community connection, purpose, and the stories we build with others.
- 🚀 The potential for a fulfilling life is reflected in the stories we create, which should embody agency, deep connection, and meaning.
Q & A
What is the common misconception about well-being according to the transcript?
-The common misconception is that well-being is merely the absence of disease, mental illness, or strife.
How does neuroscience and developmental social science contribute to our understanding of well-being?
-Neuroscience and developmental social science help us understand that the origins of well-being lie in balance, the ability, and flexibility to manage oneself.
What are the two aspects of well-being mentioned in the transcript?
-Well-being is both a capacity and a state, which the brain data helps us understand.
Why is well-being not just applied to a person but conjured within the person?
-Well-being is conjured within the person by their own actions and mental dispositions, emphasizing the individual's role in developing their well-being.
What is the significance of prioritizing the quality of relationships for well-being?
-Prioritizing relationships with people we care about is crucial for well-being as it provides a supportive social network.
How can controlling social media use contribute to one's well-being?
-Controlling social media use can prevent addictive behaviors that distract from reflection and being present, thus supporting well-being.
What is the role of reflection in enhancing well-being?
-Reflection allows individuals to construct meaningful stories about their experiences, which is essential for understanding and enhancing well-being.
Why is it important to engage in activities that one enjoys with people one enjoys being with?
-Engaging in enjoyable activities with loved ones can foster a sense of connection and happiness, which are key components of well-being.
What does the transcript suggest about the relationship between giving to others and well-being?
-The transcript suggests that giving to others and being engaged with them can provide benefits that enhance one's own well-being.
What are the key elements of a modernized understanding of well-being as per the transcript?
-A modernized understanding of well-being includes agency in one's life, connection to the community, a sense of purpose, and the building of meaningful stories with others.
How do the stories we build with others relate to our well-being?
-The stories we build with others should reflect agency, deep connection, meaning, and the potential for a fulfilling life, all of which contribute to well-being.
Outlines
🧘♂️ Understanding Well-being: Balance and Flexibility
This paragraph delves into the concept of well-being, emphasizing that it is not merely the absence of negative states but rather a balance and flexibility in managing oneself. It highlights that well-being is both a capacity and a state, influenced by an individual's actions and mental dispositions. The speaker suggests that supporting well-being involves prioritizing quality relationships, controlling social media use to avoid addictive behaviors, and reflecting on personal values and actions. The paragraph also touches on the importance of agency, community connection, and purpose in achieving a modernized understanding of well-being.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Well-being
💡Balance
💡Flexibility
💡Capacity
💡State
💡Brain Data
💡Agency
💡Relationships
💡Social Media
💡Reflection
💡Community
💡Purpose
💡Meaning
Highlights
Well-being is not just the absence of disease or mental illness, but about balance and flexibility in managing oneself.
Well-being is both a capacity and a state.
Neuroscience and developmental social science help us understand the contributions to well-being.
Well-being is conjured within a person by their own actions and dispositions of mind.
Supporting well-being involves prioritizing the quality of relationships with people you care about.
Controlling social media use and avoiding addictive behaviors can support well-being.
Reflecting and constructing meaningful stories about experiences is important for well-being.
Engaging in activities you enjoy with people you enjoy being with supports well-being.
Taking time to reflect on the purpose of actions and enacting that purpose supports well-being.
Giving to others and being engaged with others can provide benefits to one's own well-being.
A modern understanding of well-being includes having agency in one's own life.
Feeling connected to community and having a sense of purpose are crucial for well-being.
Building stories of agency, deep connection, and meaning with those around us contributes to well-being.
A life that reflects potentials and possibilities supports well-being.
Well-being involves the degree to which people can enact what matters to them.
Transcripts
- Often we think about well-being as the absence of disease,
the absence of mental illness, the absence of strife-
but the neuroscience
and also the developmental social science help us
to understand that the origins of well-being
is really about balance.
It's about an ability
and a flexibility to manage oneself.
Well-being is both a capacity and a state.
And the brain data really help us
to understand the contributions to that capacity and state.
A concept like well-being is not applied to a person.
It's conjured within the person by their own actions,
by their own dispositions of mind.
And that shifts the way in which we support a person
in developing well-being and becoming well.
I think there are practical things that you can do
to support your own well-being strategically.
Prioritizing the quality of the relationships
that you have with the people around you,
whom you care about.
Setting yourself up to have control over
certain kinds of social media use,
certain kinds of, sort of scrolling;
these kind of addictive things that sort of suck you in
to a pattern of appetitive of wanting more
and pull you out of a space where you can kind of reflect
and just sort of be;
and construct meaningful stories about how that's happening
and what that feels like.
Privileging the things that you really enjoy doing
with the people you really enjoy being with.
Taking the time to reflect
and to think about what it's all for,
and to then enact that.
Giving to others, being engaged with others,
we reap back the benefits of that.
So if we really want to think about
a modernized understanding of well-being,
we want to think about the degree
to which people have agency in their own lives
to enact the things that matter to them,
the degree to which they feel connected to community,
they feel purposeful.
The degree to which the stories that they build together
with those around them are stories of agency,
of deep connection, of meaning,
and of a life that reflects
the potentials and the possibilities that are coming next.
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