Quick little things you can do to increase long term happiness
rvard happiness expert and author of "The Happiness Advantage", Shawn Achor gives some science based tips for increasing well-being. Via CNN: In The Happiness Advantage, I challenge readers to do one brief positive exercise every day for 21 days. Only through behavioral change can information become transformation. • Write down three new things you are grateful for each day; • Write for two minutes a day describing one positive experience you had over the past 24 hours; • Exercise for…
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Can alcohol be good for your brain?
derate drinkers are 26 percent less likely to develop dementia when they get old. Might be due to the alcohol or to drinkers being more social in general. Via Brain Candy: Science, Paradoxes, Puzzles, Logic, and Illogic to Nourish Your Neurons: An Australian study of more than ten thousand people found that moderate drinkers are about 26 percent less likely than abstainers to develop dementia in later life. The difference may be due to biology (alcohol’s anti-inflammatory properties) or psychology:…
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How much does your relationship with your boss matter? Can it kill you?
a The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work: Studies have found that the strength of the bond between manager and employee is the prime predictor of both daily productivity and the length of time people stay at their jobs. Gallup, which has spent decades studying the practices of the world’s leading organizations, estimates that U.S. companies lose $360 billion each year due to lost productivity from employees who have poor relationships…
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What do we do with our leisure time: what truly makes us happy or what’s easy?
do what's easy. Via The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work: Studies have found that American teenagers are two and half times more likely to experience elevated enjoyment when engaged in a hobby than when watching TV, and three times more likely when playing a sport. And yet here’s the paradox: These same teenagers spend four times as many hours watching TV as they do engaging in sports or hobbies.…
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Does success make us happy or does happiness make us successful?
ppiness makes us successful. Via The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work: These best and brightest willingly sacrificed happiness for success because, like so many of us, they had been taught that if you work hard you will be successful—and only then, once you are successful, will you be happy. They had been taught that happiness is the reward you get only when you become partner of an investment firm, win…
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This Type Of College Freshmen End Up Making More Money 20 Years Later
e happier ones: Via The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work: ...how happy individuals were as college freshmen predicted how high their income was nineteen years later, regardless of their initial level of wealth. He's citing this study: This longitudinal study examines the influence of dispositional affect, defined as self-rated cheerfulness at college entry, on 3 job outcomes (current income, job satisfaction, and unemployment history) assessed about 19 yrs later. Analysis…
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This Will Keep You Calm When The Stakes Are High
nie Murphy Paul's great piece in Time Magazine answers the question: Reminding yourself of the high stakes makes intuitive sense as a motivational strategy—but it will actually impede your performance. Instead of spurring you to new heights, it’s likely to increase anxiety and undermine your confidence. Research shows that reminding yourself how unimportant the event is in the big scheme of things is a better tactic... A number of studies she mentions have shown that exercises like writing about our most cherished…
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10 ways a little bit of writing can solve all your problems:
iting has been shown to help people: Feel happier. Lose weight. Get over a break-up. Improve memory and increase learning. Get a job. Speed healing. Strengthen relationships. Follow through with their goals. Get over the past. Reduce worrying and increase performance. Don't like writing? How about a little more reading? It can: Treat loneliness. Make you a nicer person. Join over 135,000 readers. Get a free weekly update via email here.
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