Happiness exercise: How to overcome perfectionism
“When I was a little girl, I did well at things – like sports and math and science and English – and I got little bits of praise, and everybody thought I was smart and great,” my friend explained.
My Transformation From High School Drop Out To Surgeon
The question "how I did it" has come up in my mind many times.
Jonathan Haidt, Ph.D.
Dr. Haidt is a Social and Cultural Psychologist. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1992 and then did postdoctoral research at the University of Chicago and in Orissa, India. He has been on the faculty of the University of Virginia since 1995. His research focuses on morality – its emotional foundations, cultural variations, and developmental course. He began his career studying the negative moral emotions, such as disgust, shame, and vengeance, but then moved on to the understudied positive moral...
8 Ways to Honor Yourself
Although we may think of low self esteem as something that teenagers suffer through, it can impact us at any stage and age.
The Relationship of Age and Happiness: A Surprising Finding
Research has increasingly found happiness to be a function of many dimensions. One of them happens to be age
Shopping for stress
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Dr. Peter Whybrow, Director of the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA, comments on the effects of our consumer lifestyle. Saying that “(People) have been told somehow that if they gather material goods, they will feel better…in the process of gathering these goods they’ve stressed themselves to the point where they’re extraordinarily anxious, depressed.”
6 Tips for Fighting Boredom
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.”
Pleased to Meet Me
Have you ever stopped to wonder whether the statements you make about yourself are true?
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.