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Hi, good morning. It's wonderful to be back here,  wonderful to see you here. I am teaching you this class, because I wish a class like this had been taught when I was sitting in your seat as an undergrad here. This does not mea that it is the right class for you. But I hope to doing the next couple of lectures is giving you an idea what this class is about. I came here in 1992, and start main course of computer science. and then I had a mini epiphany half way throgh my sophomore year. I realize that I was in a wonderful place, with wonderful students around me, wonderful teachers. I was doing wll academical;y, i was doing well in athletics, I was playing ? well very. I was good at sociality, everything was going well, except for the fact, that I was unhappy, and I didn't understand why. It was then in a matter of moments. that I decided that I had to find out and become happier. That's why then I switch my concerntration from computer science to philosophy and psychology with a single question how can I become happier? Over time I become happier, what contributed most tomy happiness was when I encountered a new emerging field. that at that time didn't have the name that it has today. But essentially research that falls under or within the field of positive psychology, positive psichology studying is applying the ideas to my life has made me significantly happier. It continues to make me happier. And it was when I realize the impact that it had on me that I decided to share it with others. That's when I decided that I wanted to be a teacher and teach in this field. So this is positive psychology, psychology 1504. And we'll be exploring this new relatively new and fascinating field. And hopefully, we will be explorign more than the field ourselves. When I first tautht this class that was back in 2002. I taught it at a seminar and had eight student.