Category — strengths

My beloved friends,

Following the sweet successes of Tenacious tenacity!!! and Shan’s cockscrew of hope out of others, the sixth in a series of ten talks is entitled Shanshine’s M&Ms of playfulness! What is Shanshine’s M&Ms of playfulness? Two clues for you, ka-ching! and ka-bom! Living up to the chinese phonetics of Shan, which is san, meaning three in Chinese, three suggestions will also be offered to stoke the fires of your playfulness!

Let’s have fun!! I invite you to the sixth of my Positive Psychology series this evening in Singapore. Details as follows:

• Topic: Shanshine’s M&Ms of playfulness
• Venue: Bishan Toastmasters Club, Bishan Community Centre, Singapore
• Date: 29 April 2008
• Time: 7-10pm

I look forward to seeing you there!

With love,
Pei Shan

For the fun of it, I took the Grit survey!  This survey measures the VIA character strength of perseverance.

Guess what my score was?

3 out of 5!  I scored as high or higher than 8 in 10 test takers grouped under age, gender, education and occupation!

What is yours?

This article is inspired by my experiential session on Laughter Yoga with Avi Liran.  Thanks to Avi’s highly entertaining and energetic session, I have a germ of an idea for my next talk in my free Positive Psychology series.  To date, I have been voted Best Speaker twice out of five speeches!  The two award-winning speeches to date are Tenacious tenacity!!! and Shan’s cockscrew of hope.

After googling for Laughter Yoga, I was in silent mirth when I read that laughing is a serious matter.  What an oxymoron!  Nevertheless, I do agree that laughing is serious, especially when I recall that tickling a person to induce excessive laughing is a form of torture.

Why Laughter Yoga, and not just plain laughing (if laughter could ever be plain)?  [Read more →]

My beloved friends,

My previous talks in the Positive Psychology series were excellent! As requested, I will write up free articles highlighting the aspects of my talk on Shan’s 3 “B”s of happiness as well as the first in the series entitled Shanshine.com … Smile! Are you shining yet? in due time.

What does it entail to be tenacious? Do you have what it takes to be tenacious in things that matter to you? I will share my experience with tenacious tenacity and how tenacity empowers you to stay true to your dreams.

I invite you to the third talk of my Positive Psychology series tomorrow evening in Singapore. Details as follows:

• Topic: Tenacious tenacity!!!
• Venue: Bishan Toastmasters Club, Bishan Community Centre, Singapore
• Date: 8 April 2008
• Time: 7-10pm

I look forward to seeing you there!

With love,
Pei Shan

In an earlier article, What is Positive Psychology? (Part 2), I mentioned the Values in Action (VIA) Classification of Strengths Manual. This VIA was formulated after three years of extensive research into various sources such as religion and philosophy. As a tool, the VIA is indeed commendable for labelling our strengths, however, as it is relatively infant in usage, discretion should be exercised. I found the VIA Institute on Character’s exercises on using our strengths in innovative ways thought-provoking, and is definitely worth trying out!

Here is a tabulation of strengths classified under each virtue, Wisdom and Knowledge, Courage, Humanity and Love, Justice, Temperance, and Transcendence (Seligman, 2002).
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