How To Be Happy In Today’s Crazy World: 3 Secrets From Research
ometimes it feels like the world is actively conspiring against your happiness. Now before you start folding your tin foil hat, let me say that you might not be paranoid... Right now there are a record number of people on antidepressants. So many that even if you're not taking antidepressants, well...…
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This Is How To Sleep Better: 5 Secrets From Neuroscience
'll bet you're not getting enough sleep. Honestly, I'm kind of cheating -- it's a pretty safe bet. From Why We Sleep: Two-thirds of adults throughout all developed nations fail to obtain the recommended eight hours of nightly sleep. And that's bad. Really bad... Yes, this is the part where I lecture…
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This Is How To Make Close Friends: 4 Surprising Secrets From Research
orget pandas. Close friends are the real endangered species these days. That's a painful thing. And I don't mean "sad-painful." I mean "broken-arm-painful." At least that's how your brain sees it. Your grey matter experiences social pain the exact same way it does physical pain. So much so that Tylenol actually…
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This Is How To Easily Make Your Relationships Awesome: 4 Secrets
elationships are important. Like, more-important-than-Vitamin-C important. Scurvy is no fun but a lack of relationships might kill you faster. From The Relationship Cure: A study of people living in Alameda County, California, for example, showed that people who had close friendships and marriages lived longer than those who didn’t. This…
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This Is How To Find Joy: 4 Simple Secrets To The Good Life
Older and wiser." You're on board with that, right? Sure. But what if I said "older and more joyful?" That probably doesn't click in the same way. Physically, getting old sucks. From Happiness Is a Choice You Make: Lessons from a Year Among the Oldest Old: At ages eighty-five and…
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This Is How To Be Your Best Self: 3 Secrets Backed By Research
ow should we treat other people? Well, if you look at ancient traditions, they're very often on the same page. Golden Rule for the win: King James Bible: “All things whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, do ye even so to them.” Hinduism: “Knowing how painful it is to…
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7 Surprising Books That Will Make Your Life Better
read a lot of books. I reference at least one book a week in these blog posts but I have to read a lot more than that -- usually 4 to 5 times as many -- to find the ones worth citing. So a lot of people ask me…
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This Is How To Overcome Anger: 5 Powerful Secrets From Mindfulness
here's a voice shouting. Takes a second before you realize it's yours. You feel energized. Righteous. Driving every point home. It's like the climax of a courtroom drama and you're the hero... Too bad you're saying a lot of stuff you're definitely going to regret in twenty minutes. But, hey, at…
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