4 hours ago by Michael

I don’t like being so negative all the time. I promise my next post will be nicer. BUT… You might have seen a lot of stories floating around about a new study into happiness reported in Science. If you didn’t, you can see a whole bunch of them here. Every single one of them misses the point of the s ...

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9 hours ago by Brian

Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share by Email Click here to view the embedded video. In this PN TV episode, we take a quick look at some of my favorite Big Ideas from Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's GREAT book, "Flow"--including the importance of learning how to control the contents of our consciousne ...

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1 day ago by Cary Cooper

I recently posted about my concern that we’re not doing enough to ensure that our children get sufficient exercise (not to mention ourselves!). Taking the physical benefits as a given, I focused particularly on the beneficial effects for our psychological well-being – something which can often be ov ...

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1 day ago by Rachel

Fourteen years ago, in a Sophomore German class, I sat two rows up from two girls whom, despite being fellow Rojans who donned the same blue and gold jersey once a week and participated in the same ornament sales, candy-cane sortings, homecoming activities and Ronald McDonald House volunteer gigs, I ...

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1 day ago by Dr Deb

You CAN Thrive Despite the Odds Although I am a New England native, I now live and practice positive psychology in Asheville, North Carolina. I was fascinated, therefore, when two stories on NPR’s All Things Considered this evening were about individuals living in towns not far from Asheville. Each ...

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1 day ago by Brian

Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share by Email Click here to view the embedded video. Optimism, optimism, optimism. If we want to live an extraordinary life, we've gotta develop our ability to shape our minds. In this episode, we're going to take a quick look at Martin Seligman's great book "Lear ...

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1 day ago by Rebecca Lynn

The project I'm working on, currently, is a creative nonfiction piece for a group called Project Iris Garden, or Students for Danforth Park. This is a campus group, created in an English 101 class, that has decided to resurrect one of the campus's green spaces. Reclamation project. What has been so ...

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2 days ago by Brian

Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share by Email Click here to view the embedded video. Viktor Frankl is extraordinary. He survived the horrors of concentration camps and created "Logotherapy"--his philosophy of life that he articulates in his classic book, "Man's Search for Meaning." In this PN TV ...

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2 days ago by Stephan Wiedner

What is the glue that holds relationships together? What makes friendships last? It turns out that there is an increasing amount of research being done in this area indicating that strong interpersonal relationships are built on a foundation of well-delivered appreciation toward the other person. Sh ...

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2 days ago by Jo Jordan

Do you remember the Theory of Constraints? A system is only as good as its slowest part! And because slow sections are a fact of life, we rally around the slow section part, not the fastest part, or the most talented! Basically, the slowly part must never be left with nothing to do! A faster section ...

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