Topic: happiness
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Happiness Inc.
Monday, April 22, 2013 · Topics: happiness, positive-psychology
From NY Times: According to Sonja Lyubomirsky, you have a happiness set point. It’s partly encoded in your genes. If something good happens, your sense of happiness rises; if something bad happens, it falls. But either way, before too long, your mood will creep back to its set point because of a really powerful and perverse phenomenon referred to in science as “hedonic adaptation.” You know, people get used to things. · Go to Happiness Inc. →
Want to boost your happiness? Control your exit
Saturday, December 22, 2012 · Topics: emotional-intelligence, happiness, positive-emotions
From Gretchen Rubin: It means, always be able to leave when you want. Drive yourself to a party instead of getting a ride, so you can leave when you’re ready. Try to go to someone else’s house, or a public place, instead of having people over to your house, because there’s nothing worse than seeing someone lean back and cross their legs when you’re ready to go to bed. Or else have people over to your house before some event – before a dinner reservation or a movie – so you have to leave by a certain time. · Go to Want to boost your happiness? Control your exit →
One of the most unhappy periods of my life led to my happiest.
Saturday, December 22, 2012 · Topics: happiness, positive-emotions
Gretchen Rubin interviews Andy Borowitz, editor of The 50 Funniest American Writers: An Anthology of Humor from Mark Twain to The Onion. · Go to One of the most unhappy periods of my life led to my happiest. →
Lessons In productive procrastination
Tuesday, August 14, 2012 · Topics: decision-making, happiness, planning, productivity, time-management
From FastCompany: Frank Partnoy describes himself as an inveterate procrastinator — and the banker/lawyer/author is not convinced that’s a bad thing. His book Wait: The Art and Science of Delay is an investigation into his own habits of prolonged decision-making and the shortsightedness that pervaded crisis-era finance. Fast Company talked with Partnoy about when to make decisions, how to manage time, and why better-paid people are less happy. · Go to Lessons In productive procrastination →
A new economic bill of rights to create national happiness
Tuesday, August 14, 2012 · Topics: economic-recovery, happiness, positive-psychology, well-being
From FastCompany: If we’re going to remake our economy to increase well-being for all people, we would do well to include these 10 new tenets of economic freedom. This is excerpted from What’s The Economy For, Anyway? — a book by John De Graaf and David K. Batker that looks at how the economy can create “the greatest good for the greatest number over the long run.” · Go to A new economic bill of rights to create national happiness →
Happiness is the ultimate economic indicator
Tuesday, March 13, 2012 · Topics: happiness, positive-psychology
From FastCompany: Increased economic growth doesn’t necessarily lead to more fulfillment. So why do we consider GDP to be the most important factor? In an excerpt from The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality, Richard Heinberg argues it’s time to start paying more attention to national happiness instead. · Go to Happiness is the ultimate economic indicator →
Building better businesses by closing the happiness gap
Tuesday, March 13, 2012 · Topics: employee-engagement, happiness, positive-organizations, work-life-balance
From FastCompany: As work becomes our lives, it becomes more and more important for us to be happy at work. But few of us are. A revolution in workplace happiness would make us healthier and more productive. How can we get there? · Go to Building better businesses by closing the happiness gap →
Carl Jung’s five key elements to happiness.
Friday, March 2, 2012 · Topics: coping, emotional-intelligence, happiness
From Gretchen Rubin at the Happiness Project: In 1960, journalist Gordon Young asked Jung, “What do you consider to be more or less basic factors making for happiness in the human mind?” Jung answered with five elements. · Go to Carl Jung’s five key elements to happiness. →
