Happiness Exercise: Writing
The Leonardo da Vinci exhibit at the Museum of Science in Boston was full of intriguing items, from a blue metal sculpture symbolizing bird flight to the bridge build with no nails to images of Leonardo’s many journals.
Are You Spiritual or Psychotic?
In his bestselling book, “Strong at the Broken Places,” Richard Cohen profiles, among five persons living with chronic illness, mental health advocate Larry Fricks.
A “Little Thing” (Very Little) That Makes Me Happy: the Gift...
Samuel Johnson wrote, “It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery, and as much happiness as possible," and I’m often struck by how much happiness I get from small, seemingly trivial aspects of my life.
Treat Yourself With Compassion — 10 Tips
Perfectionism is a refusal to let yourself move ahead. It is a loop -- an obsessive, debilitating closed system.
Flow at work: Three questions
In last week’s blog post, I described flow. Today, I’ll walk you through three questions to getting towards more flow at work.
This Emotional Life: The Visual Series
PBS released a documentary called “This Emotional Life” and I saw it and went to pieces.
James Pennebaker Ph.D.
Most of Dr. Pennebaker’s current research deals with the nature of language and social processes. Beginning over 20 years ago, he discovered that if people were asked to write about emotional upheavals in their lives, their physical and mental health improved. This resulted in a separate research project that explored how words can both reflect and influence underlying feelings, thoughts, personality, and behavioral tendencies.
In the last few years, Dr. Pennebaker and his students have developed a text analysis program, LIWC, that has allowed them...
Sunni Brown
Sunni Brown is a business owner, information designer and co-author of Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers and Changemakers (available July 15). Her consultancy, BrightSpot I.D., specializes in visual thinking and the broad range of its applications. Sunni was trained in graphic recording and facilitation at The Grove Consultants International, a San Francisco-based company that pioneered the use of large-scale visuals in business settings. She is currently an Associate of The Grove, a freelance consultant for XPLANE—the visual thinking company—and an Associate of Alphachimp...
How to be the best athlete, singer, entrepreneur, mom, etc.
So you know you’re pretty good at something, but you want to get better.