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    《财富》：快乐有许多其他作用，比如更高的生产力和更长久的健康。这些作用中，哪一个是最让你惊讶的？

    高根：孩子们在积极的时候学得更好。曾经有一项研究，我记得是在伦敦进行的，实验对象是二年级的孩子们。一个班和往常一样上课学习，另一个班的学生在每天上课前围成一圈坐在一起，分享一两件昨天的开心事。结果第二个班的孩子们成绩提高了，学生之间进攻性和恃强欺弱的现象减少了，而且老师的满意度上升，测试成绩也改善了。如果人们更积极，我们会学得更好，孩子们在学校做得更棒，员工表现更出色，我觉得这个理念非常强大。

    《财富》：你在美国的大部分时间是不是在追寻“美国梦”？如今这个梦想还是一样的形式吗，需要做些调整吗？

    高根：说来挺有意思的。我在TEDx结束演讲后，有人过来跟我说，“真的非常不可思议而且鼓舞人心，但从某种意义上说，你追寻的不依然是‘大快乐’吗”？我想这就是关键：我并不是指我们不再创造快乐了，不是说你没有目标或不创造新东西、不学习新知识了，而是指我们的快乐不再依赖这些了。我不需要等到开了一家十亿美元的大公司后才快乐。关键是，我们的日常生活，即使艰辛坎坷，总有些许快乐时光。（财富中文网）

    译者：默默

    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.