????《財富》：快樂有許多其他作用，比如更高的生產力和更長久的健康。這些作用中，哪一個是最讓你驚訝的？

????高根：孩子們在積極的時候學得更好。曾經有一項研究，我記得是在倫敦進行的，實驗對象是二年級的孩子們。一個班和往常一樣上課學習，另一個班的學生在每天上課前圍成一圈坐在一起，分享一兩件昨天的開心事。結果第二個班的孩子們成績提高了，學生之間進攻性和恃強欺弱的現象減少了，而且老師的滿意度上升，測試成績也改善了。如果人們更積極，我們會學得更好，孩子們在學校做得更棒，員工表現更出色，我覺得這個理念非常強大。

????《財富》：你在美國的大部分時間是不是在追尋“美國夢”？如今這個夢想還是一樣的形式嗎，需要做些調整嗎？

????高根：說來挺有意思的。我在TEDx結束演講后，有人過來跟我說，“真的非常不可思議而且鼓舞人心，但從某種意義上說，你追尋的不依然是‘大快樂’嗎”？我想這就是關鍵：我并不是指我們不再創造快樂了，不是說你沒有目標或不創造新東西、不學習新知識了，而是指我們的快樂不再依賴這些了。我不需要等到開了一家十億美元的大公司后才快樂。關鍵是，我們的日常生活，即使艱辛坎坷，總有些許快樂時光。（財富中文網）

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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.