Dear Dr. Seligman
For the past week I decided to go through your “three good things” process. The purpose of this process is to improve one’s well being. The way the process works is simple. You have to write three good things that happen to you each day, for seven days. The results however, are not as simple. This process did indeed improve my well being, but only for a short period of time. For example, I wrote that I was grateful that my dad picked me up from school. The reason I was grateful is because usually I have to take two buses to get home. When I wrote about this it made me feel happy and appreciative. But I soon forgot about it later and went back to feeling normal. Same thing occurred with another example. I wrote that I was grateful that the program I used to do homework, explained how each problem is done. Again, this only made me feel happy, for a short period of time. There are a couple of questions to consider. The first is time. Is seven days enough time to for this process to have an effect? For me personally the answer to that is no. Like I stated previously, the process didn’t have an enough effect on me. I think that is due to time. Because of this, I will continue to do the process for seven more days and see what happens. The other question is does this work on everybody. I believe the answer to that is also no. I found out about this process through a class I’m taking in college. I was assigned to do this process. This means that other people were assigned as well. At the end of the process, my classmates were asked how they felt about it. Some said it worked for them, while others said it no effect at all. This makes me believe that whether it works or not depends on the person. That is how I felt about your process of “three good things”
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Anne
11/13/2018 12:32:00 pm
I think it's good that you decided to give the exercise a second chance
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