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The single most important thing to do today if you want to live a long, happy life:
bsp; Might sound trite or corny, but go see a friend. The research regarding what it takes to live a long life and what it takes to live a happy life overlap significantly. One of the things they share is spending time with friends. Harvard happiness expert Dan Gilbert says that what brings us the most happiness is family and friends. Having a better social life can be worth as much as an additional $131,232 a year in terms of life satisfaction. By…
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What are the three ways to train your brain to be happy?
u can train your mind to be unhappy and you can train it to be happy. Training your mind to look for errors and problems (as happens in careers like accounting and law) can lead you toward a pervasive pessimism that carries over into your personal life. Via One Day University Presents: Positive Psychology: The Science of Happiness (Harvard’s Most Popular Course): I discovered the tax auditors who are the most successful sometimes are the ones that for eight to 14…
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How To Be Truly Happy With Your Life
e path to happiness and the path to being an expert overlap. Here's the problem though: research shows that you don’t usually do what really brings you joy or makes you an expert -- you do what is 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 a half times more likely to experience elevated enjoyment when engaged in a hobby than when…
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What makes almost everyone happy?
ing smartphones, Harvard happiness researchers surveyed 5000 people from 83 countries, ages 18-83, almost 250,000 times. What was consistent? We're happy when we're having sex, exercising, socializing, or when the mind is focused on the here and now. We're unhappy when we're commuting or when our minds are wandering. Via Engineering Happiness: A New Approach for Building a Joyful Life: Using smart phones, Matthew A. Killingsworth and Daniel T. Gilbert of Harvard University collected a large sample of experiences and associated…
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What’s the secret to being happy at home and fulfilled at work?
bsp; Do what you're good at. Using your "signature strengths" — those qualities you are uniquely best at, the talents that set you apart from others — makes you stress less: The more hours per day Americans get to use their strengths to do what they do best, the less likely they are to report experiencing worry, stress, anger, sadness, or physical pain... Using your strengths makes you feel better: Americans also gain a boost in positive emotions the more they…
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Can you really predict what will make you happy?
re's what most people think will make them happy, in order of importance: Via The Optimism Bias: A Tour of the Irrationally Positive Brain: A survey of more than 2,015 people conducted by the British research company Ipsos MORI revealed that people believe the following five factors are most likely to enhance happiness (they are listed in order of importance). 1) More time with family 2) Earning double what I do now 3) Better health 4) More time with friends…
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Happy Thoughts: Here are the things proven to make you happier:
hat's the secret to a head full of happy thoughts? Time to round up the research on living a happy life to see what we can use. First, yeah, a good chunk of happiness is controlled by your genes but there's a lot you can do to make yourself happier.…
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This Personality Trait Leads To Long Lives, Happy Marriages And Money
ing conscientious. "Conscientiousness, which was the best predictor of longevity when measured in childhood, also turned out to be the best personality predictor of long life when measured in adulthood." "...our findings suggest that conscientiousness is the trait most broadly associated with marital satisfaction in this sample of long-wed couples." "Measured concurrently, emotionally stable and conscientious participants reported higher incomes and job satisfaction." "...the personality traits Conscientiousness and Neuroticism have a strong impact on the instantaneous probability of finding a…
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