Month: September 2016
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Women Leaders Get Results: The Data
The most effective leaders, we’ve long known, have more competence in emotional intelligence. It’s not your college degrees or IQ that make you an outstanding leader, but emotional intelligence abilities. Leaders who get the best results tend to show more strengths in key competencies in emotional intelligence. Now the news comes that women, on average, […]
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Discover How to Buy Happiness
Michael Norton shares fascinating research on how money can, indeed buy happiness — when you don’t spend it on yourself. Listen for surprising data on the many ways pro-social spending can benefit you, your work, and (of course) other people. Michael Norton is a professor of business administration in the marketing unit at the Harvard […]
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Happiness: Getting Our Priorities Right
There is a vitally important shift underway in how we think about progress. Growing numbers of economists, political leaders and expert commentators are calling for better measures of how well society is doing; measures that track not just our economic standard of living, but our overall quality of life. This shift also mirrors the way […]
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Relieve Stress by Coloring Mandalas
Adults have long used crafts to unwind, but why coloring books? Why now? It may have something to do with online access — and, funnily enough, the desire to unplug. Like children, adults need a break from screen time– and many are rediscovering the analog pleasures of coloring inside the lines. The therapeutic benefits of […]
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The Book That Dismantles “The Myths of Happiness”
In “The Myths of Happiness”, Sonja Lyubomirsky isolates the major turning points of adult life, looking to both achievements (marriage, children, professional satisfaction, wealth) and failures (divorce, financial ruin, illness) to reveal that our misconceptions about the impact of such events is perhaps the greatest threat to our long-term well-being. Lyubomirsky argues that we have […]
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How To Behave As An Effective Leader
Lynn had dreaded this meeting with her team. Frowning, she looked around the conference table and said, “I’ve got bad news. Upper management told me this team’s performance is unacceptable. We have to pull up our numbers by the end of this quarter, or heads will roll. I’ve decided to make major changes. First, all […]
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Discover the App to Track Your Happiness
When are humans most happy? To gather data on this question, Matt Killingsworth built an app, Track Your Happiness, that let people report their feelings in real time. Among the surprising results: We’re often happiest when we’re lost in the moment. And the flip side: The more our mind wanders, the less happy we can […]
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UAE Government Selects ‘Happiness Officers’
Sixty people have been chosen as the country’s first “chief happiness and positivity officers”, and will be heading overseas in September. They were selected from among 200 candidates in national and local government departments. The trainees will undergo an “intense” study programme in the United Kingdom and United States, the government says, with stints at […]
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The Healthiest Ways To Cook Veggies And Boost Nutrition
Oddly enough, that’s not likely to be raw. Studies show the process of cooking actually breaks down tough outer layers and cellular structure of many vegetables, making it easier for your body to absorb their nutrients. For example, compared to raw, “studies found that eating cooked spinach and carrots resulted in higher blood levels of […]
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Man’s Search for Meaning: a Chronicle of World War II
Man’s Search for Meaning is a 1946 book by Viktor Frankl chronicling his experiences as an Auschwitz concentration camp inmate during World War II, and describing his psychotherapeutic method, which involved identifying a purpose in life to feel positively about, and then immersively imagining that outcome. According to Frankl, the way a prisoner imagined the […]