Is it true that “What does not kill you makes you stronger?”
in 25K+ subscribers. No spam, ever. Enter your email here: In many cases, yes. Individuals who went through the most awful events came out stronger than those who did not face any adversity. Via Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-being: Never to be forgotten, finally, is post-traumatic growth (PTG). A substantial number of people also show intense depression and anxiety after extreme adversity, often to the level of PTSD, but then they grow. In the long…
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The last damn thing you’ll ever need to read about setting and achieving goals:
in 25K+ subscribers. No spam, ever. Enter your email here: Huh? Set goals? Why? Setting goals can improve your life. Goal setting is one of the four techniques the military used to increase Navy SEAL passing rates from 25% to 33%. Studies have also shown it makes you happier. How do you set goals? Initially, the research says, aim high. Set ambitious goals. (But later on down the road don't be afraid to settle to be happy.) Keeping…
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What’s the average number of friends a Facebook user has?
bsp; The average Facebook user has 229 friends. Pew Research compiled its research on Facebook and turned up some interesting insights. A few things that caught my eye: 80% of friend requests are accepted. 22% of Facebook friends are from high school. Women average 21 updates to their Facebook status per month while men average 6. Women and younger users tend to unfriend more than others. And: • Facebook users are more trusting than others. A Facebook user who uses…
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What gives your brain as much pleasure as food or money?
in 25K+ readers. No spam, ever. Enter your email here: Talking about yourself. Via the WSJ (Hat tip: Nick Krasney): Talking about ourselves—whether in a personal conversation or through social media sites like Facebook and Twitter—triggers the same sensation of pleasure in the brain as food or money, researchers reported Monday. About 40% of everyday speech is devoted to telling others about what we feel or think. Now, through five brain imaging and behavioral experiments, Harvard University neuroscientists have…
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Who is happier: billionaires, Amish, the homeless, slumdwellers or Masai?
sponses to: “You are satisfied with your life,” ranging from complete agreement (7) to complete disagreement (1), where 4 is neutral. This is from University of Pennsylvania professor Martin Selgiman's book, Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-being. Join 45K+ subscribers. Get a free daily update via email here. Related posts: 10 things you need to know to be happier 8 ways that money can buy happiness How to make yourself happier in just a few seconds
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How much education did the greatest creative geniuses of all time need?
in 25K+ subscribers. No spam, ever. Enter your email here: About college-dropout level. Via Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else: Dean Keith Simonton, a professor at the University of California at Davis, conducted a large-scale study of more than three hundred creative high achievers born between 1450 and 1850—Leonardo da Vinci, Galileo, Beethoven, Rembrandt, for example. He determined the amount of formal education each had received and measured each one’s level of eminence by…
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What incredible powers do gorgeous women have?
in 25K+ subscribers. No spam, ever. Enter your email here: Seeing attractive women makes men stupid. Actually, it's even worse than that: just thinking about dealing with a beautiful lady makes male IQ plummet. When CNN shows have attractive female anchors men can't even remember the news. To be fair, it's not just the guys who get distracted by female beauty. There's a reason there are more women on the covers of magazines than men. Both sexes pay more…
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How does your parents’ appearance affect who you date or marry?
in 25K+ subscribers. No spam, ever. Enter your email here: Men are more likely to date women with the same eye color as their mom. Women are more likely to date men with the same eye color as their father. Via In Your Face: The New Science of Human Attraction: The single best predictor for partners’ eye colour was the eye colour of the parent of the opposite sex. Thus, if a woman’s mother had blue eyes and if…
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