Old School: 7 Ideas From Ancient Thinkers To Improve Your Modern Life
e modern world has brought us a lot of great stuff. (I, for one, am a huge fan of antibiotics.) That said, we know there are things that were better in the past, ideas we can learn from or reclaim. What's interesting is recently science and experts have validated many of the lessons ancient thinkers knew but could not prove. Here are 7 new ideas from the old world that can make your life better: 1) Community Is Vital For 99% of human existence…
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How To Overcome Regret And Seize The Day — Scientifically
at hurts more than those pangs of regret? It's one of the worst feelings in the world, right? But I've got a surprise for you -- regret can be a good thing. In fact, sometimes you enjoy it. Sound crazy? When researchers asked people to score the upside of many different emotions, regret actually beat out pride. Via Mastering the Art of Quitting: Why It Matters in Life, Love, and Work: Both regret and disappointment, however, scored much more favorably…
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Take A Nap! 5 Secrets That’ll Make You Happier And Smarter
r many of us, more hours of shut-eye at night just doesn't seem to be in the cards. Is there anything we can do? Yes. Naps. Wonderful, glorious naps. They're not a full-on substitute for lack of sleep but they can do much more than you think and in less time than you'd guess. Without them, you're going to be a mess. Here's why. Wanna Be Dumb And Ugly? Lack of sleep not only makes you ugly and sick, it…
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How 5 Post-It Notes Can Make You Happy, Confident and Successful
ttle Reminders Create Big Changes You know why older people are happier? Research shows as we age we remember the good and forget the bad: ...older people shown pictures of faces or situations tend to focus on and remember the happier ones more and the negative ones less. Yeah, that's all it takes. So if you could just regularly get reminders of the good things in your life, well, you'd be halfway there... And it's not speculation -- research shows thinking about…
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The Science Of “Happily Ever After”: 3 Things That Keep Love Alive
Daniel Jones, author of Love Illuminated, explains: we spend youth asking "How do I find love?" and midlife asking "How do I get it back?" Anyone in a relationship or who plans on being in one needs to know how to keep love alive over the long term. But how do you learn the secret to this? Everyone is happy to explain "how they met" but few give the details on "how they stayed together." So let's look at what…
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How To Achieve Work-Life Balance In 5 Steps
hieving work-life balance can look impossible. And, frankly, it seems like it's getting harder. In the ten years from 1986 to 1996 work-life balance was mentioned in the media 32 times. In 2007 alone it was mentioned 1674 times. Via The ONE Thing: A LexisNexis survey of the top 100 newspapers and magazines around the world shows a dramatic rise in the number of articles on the topic, from 32 in the decade from 1986 to 1996 to a high…
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How To Be More Satisfied With Your Life – 5 Steps Proven By Research
ve posted a lot about the research around how to be happier. But being satisfied with your life is something a little different. Daniel Kahneman, Nobel Prize winner and author of Thinking, Fast and Slow, gave a TED talk where he explained the two pretty well: Happiness is being happy in your life. We experience it immediately and in the moment. Life satisfaction is being happy about your life. It is the happiness that exists when we talk about the past and the big…
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Lessons From The Samurai: The Secret To Always Being At Your Best
ading a few books by samurai there was one thing I saw repeated again and again and again that surprised me. It has nothing to do with swords, fighting or strategy. Actually, quite the opposite when you think about it. What did so many of history's greatest warriors stress as key to success and optimal performance? "Being calm." And it wasn't one random samurai mentioning it off the cuff. We're talking about some of the greatest samurai who ever lived writing about…
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