Moments of absolute absorption
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Writer Adam Gopnik finds happiness in being "vigilantly absorbed in some activity.
This Emotional Life: The Visual Series
PBS released a documentary called “This Emotional Life” and I saw it and went to pieces.
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.
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,...
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.