保持快乐的秘诀：写日记
The secret to being happy... keep a diary
Note to self: the key to happiness is keeping a diary and writing down the things that make you smile.
写给自己：保持幸福的诀窍就是记日记,记下那些让你快乐的事.
For while fictional diarists Bridget Jones and Adrian Mole used journals to record their woes and embarrassments, paying attention to the things that lift our moods mean we can learn how to cheer ourselves up, says a leading physicist.
一位著名的物理学家说,《BJ单身日记》和《艾德里安·莫尔的秘密日记》等虚构日记的作者用日记记录他们的伤心和尴尬事,不过多关注那些能提振我们心情的事情或许意味着我们可以学会让自己快乐起来.
Author Dr Stefan Klein has found that being happy is a skill that can be learned like a foreign language, and one way to train ourselves to be happy is to write down the little things that cheer us up each day – a technique he practises himself.
作者斯蒂芬·克莱因博士发现保持快乐是一门技巧,它可以像学习外语一样通过学习来掌握,训练我们自己快乐的方法之一就是记下每天让我们高兴的事,这门技巧他自己也在研习.
Dr Klein, who analysed psychological research for his book The Science of Happiness, added he often writes about his three young children, despite occasionally finding them 'incredibly annoying'.
克莱因博士在他的著作《幸福的科学》一书中进行了心理学研究,他表示,他会经常写一些关于他三个小孩儿的事情,虽然偶尔也会发现这些孩子"出奇地恼人".
Speaking at the Cheltenham Science Festival, the German-born researcher said that decades of study into happiness has shown that people who are clinically depressed often believe there are no sources of joy in their lives.
出生于德国的克莱因博士在切尔腾纳姆科学节的演讲中表示,几十年来对于幸福的研究表明,那些通过临床诊断为抑郁的人们通常认为在他们的生活中没有快乐的来源.
But a study by Italian psychiatrist Giovanni Fava found that when patients were asked to keep diaries of events that made them happy, it 'helped them a lot to get better'.
