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The Path to Happiness: Cliffs Notes Version
1. Secure the basics: food, shelter, safety, security, good health. 2. Have stable relationships that matter: connection, companionship, communication, community. (We humans are social creatures.…
February 11, 2010
Learned Optimism and Explanatory Styles
“Learned Optimism” is a book by Martin Seligman that I read about 15 years ago and have since counted among my favorites. Dr. Seligman, who…
February 9, 2010
PopCap: The Non-Apology Apology
(Friday’s Populist Capitalist Blog Post) Sorry seems to be the hardest word for some people to say and even harder to really mean. The resulting…
February 5, 2010
The Grass is Greener on the Other Side of the Fence Because…
We all know that more money does not automatically translate into more happiness. Unfortunately, that knowledge tends to be an abstract, intellectual one. Too often…
February 3, 2010
The Scientific Method: Beliefs vs. Verifiable Facts
How do we know what is true? How do we resolve our doubts? In the physical world, we use the scientific method. At its most…
February 1, 2010
The Perils of Ageism
Your beliefs strongly affect your reality. To a large extent, in ways small and large, our beliefs create our reality. How we see the world…
January 20, 2010
What Difference Do You Make?
There is a motivational website I bookmarked called Think TQ. I visit the site regularly because it has a message of the day, which frequently…
January 14, 2010
Experts Often Aren’t: Expertise (and Experts) Are Over Rated
How did we get in this financial mess? How were we led over an economic cliff? Was it because we trusted the wrong experts? Or…
January 12, 2010
Emotional Intelligence
What is emotional intelligence? Why does it matter? In today’s hyper-competitive environment, technical ability and intellectual talent are taken as a given, merely table…
January 11, 2010
If Not Now, When?
There is a story… At the end of his Sunday sermon, it was the preacher’s practice to stand at the back of the auditorium…
December 30, 2009
The Helper’s High
Want to feel better? Live longer? Dodge a bad mood? Lift yourself up? It’s easy. Go help someone else! “Helper’s high” has been well…
December 23, 2009