The Lazy Way To An Awesome Life: 4 Secrets Backed By Research
u can reach a point in life where you think, “I am never going to achieve what I thought I would.” Yeah, dark, but far from uncommon. You’re not where you expected to be. There’s a sense of needing to make up for lost time -- but it seems there’s less time than ever. Life has gone from feeling like an epic unfurling adventure to a sterile bureaucratic treadmill. Endless deadening responsibilities, but there’s no longer a narrative…
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This Is The Most Surprising Way To Make Your Life Awesome
What if you could be someone else? Not a totally different person. But what if you could be a better version of you? You 2.0. We’d all like to change something about ourselves. (The phrase “character defects” exists for a reason.) Being less stressed and more organized might be nice. But…
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How To Be Resilient: 4 Steps To Happiness When Life Gets Hard
The pandemic still isn’t over. Life still isn’t back to normal. And that means a lot of us are still on edge. Frustrated. Disgruntled. At times, we’re downright angry. And that saps our resilience. Our ability to cope and live a good life. Dealing with anger is difficult because, frankly, we…
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How to Be Happier Without Really Trying
The meeting was supposed to be boring. In 2019 a bunch of academics and think tank policy folks were gathered for what should have been an uneventful conference of long-winded PowerPoint and bad coffee. Sadly, it would not stay that dull and predictable… The presenter finishes his talk. A colleague comments…
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This Is The Most Fun Way To Make Your Life Awesome
“The internet is making smart people smarter and dumb people dumber.” That’s writer Kevin Drum. On the surface it would seem that the internet should be making us all smarter, right?. The world’s information is just a Google search away. But what happened when Carnegie Mellon researchers studied the effects of…
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4 Things The Most Organized People Do Every Day
In 1930, famed economist John Maynard Keynes predicted that within a century nobody would work more than 15 hours a week… Yeah, I’m giggling too. He didn’t take into account that human desires just never level off. There’s always a shiny new thing to buy and always new Joneses to keep…
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This Is How To Never Be Bored Again: 4 Secrets From Research
Fixing the plumbing on a toilet is far from exciting. But Chris didn’t mind... But that’s probably because he was in outer space. It’s not a stretch to assume common household chores take on another level of interestingness when you’re on a space station. And so Chris Hadfield, the first Canadian…
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This Is How To Have A Long Awesome Life: 5 Secrets From Research
Head out to the Inyo National Forest in California and you’ll see plenty of bristlecone pine trees. There’s one in particular worth noting. It’s aptly named “Methuselah.” As of 2021, that tree is at least 4,853 years old. Methuselah was there when woolly mammoths were still wandering around. It calls the…
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