????《財(cái)富》：快樂(lè)有許多其他作用，比如更高的生產(chǎn)力和更長(zhǎng)久的健康。這些作用中，哪一個(gè)是最讓你驚訝的？

????高根：孩子們?cè)诜e極的時(shí)候?qū)W得更好。曾經(jīng)有一項(xiàng)研究，我記得是在倫敦進(jìn)行的，實(shí)驗(yàn)對(duì)象是二年級(jí)的孩子們。一個(gè)班和往常一樣上課學(xué)習(xí)，另一個(gè)班的學(xué)生在每天上課前圍成一圈坐在一起，分享一兩件昨天的開(kāi)心事。結(jié)果第二個(gè)班的孩子們成績(jī)提高了，學(xué)生之間進(jìn)攻性和恃強(qiáng)欺弱的現(xiàn)象減少了，而且老師的滿(mǎn)意度上升，測(cè)試成績(jī)也改善了。如果人們更積極，我們會(huì)學(xué)得更好，孩子們?cè)趯W(xué)校做得更棒，員工表現(xiàn)更出色，我覺(jué)得這個(gè)理念非常強(qiáng)大。

????《財(cái)富》：你在美國(guó)的大部分時(shí)間是不是在追尋“美國(guó)夢(mèng)”？如今這個(gè)夢(mèng)想還是一樣的形式嗎，需要做些調(diào)整嗎？

????高根：說(shuō)來(lái)挺有意思的。我在TEDx結(jié)束演講后，有人過(guò)來(lái)跟我說(shuō)，“真的非常不可思議而且鼓舞人心，但從某種意義上說(shuō)，你追尋的不依然是‘大快樂(lè)’嗎”？我想這就是關(guān)鍵：我并不是指我們不再創(chuàng)造快樂(lè)了，不是說(shuō)你沒(méi)有目標(biāo)或不創(chuàng)造新東西、不學(xué)習(xí)新知識(shí)了，而是指我們的快樂(lè)不再依賴(lài)這些了。我不需要等到開(kāi)了一家十億美元的大公司后才快樂(lè)。關(guān)鍵是，我們的日常生活，即使艱辛坎坷，總有些許快樂(lè)時(shí)光。（財(cái)富中文網(wǎng)）

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????Fortune: Happiness has many side effects like higher productivity and better long-term health. What is a side effect of happiness that you found surprising?

????Kogan: Kids learn better when they're more positive. There was a study that they ran, I believe this was in London, and they took second graders and one second grade class just carried on as they usually do, but the other class started every single day by sitting in a circle and sharing one or two things that they were happy about from the [day before]. The class that did this improved their grades, aggression and bullying were lower, teacher satisfaction went up, and their test results went up. This idea that if people are more positive, we can learn better, that kids can do better in school, that employees can do better—to me that's very powerful.

????Fortune: Do you spent the most of your life in the United States chasing the "American Dream." Does it still exist in the same form today and does it need to be changed?

????Kogan: It's interesting, someone came up to me after my TEDx Talk and said to me, "this is really incredible and inspirational, but aren't you still in a way chasing the 'big happy?'" And I guess that's the whole point. It doesn't mean that we stop creating. It doesn't mean that you don't have goals or don't create new things or learn new things. But it does mean that you don't hang your happiness?on that. I don't need to wait to be happy until I build a billion dollar company. The point is that every day, even if they're really hard, have some happy moments in them.