Tag: Education
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Philosophy for Life
In Philosophy for Life and Other Dangerous Situations, Jules Evans explains how ancient philosophy saved his life, and how we might all use it to become happier, wiser, and more resilient. Jules explores how ancient philosophy can inspire modern communities – Socratic cafes, Stoic armies, Platonic sects, Sceptic summer camps – and even whole nations […]
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Talk by Satish Kumar on Wellbeing
Born and raised in India, Kumar at the age of 9 became a monk of the Jain religion, one of the world’s oldest belief systems revering nature and all life forms. He became an activist at 18, influenced by Mahatma Gandhi’s philosophy of non-violence and land reform. His peace walk across the globe in the […]
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How Happiness Directly Impacts Your Success
The world’s leading positive psychology expert and bestselling author Shawn Achor is the winner of over a dozen distinguished teaching awards at Harvard University, where he delivered lectures on positive psychology in the most popular class at Harvard, and has become one of the world’s leading experts on the connection between happiness and success. His […]
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Flourish
From the bestselling author of “Learned Optimism” and “Authentic Happiness” comes a relentlessly optimistic guidebook on finding and securing individual happiness. This book will help you flourish. With this unprecedented promise, internationally esteemed psychologist Martin Seligman begins “Flourish” his first book in ten years and the first to present his dynamic new concept of what […]
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Why does happiness matter?
Does happiness matter? People react to this question in surprisingly different ways. Some suggest that there are far more significant things to worry about; others see happiness as vitally important and something that every human being ultimately wants in life. To explore this conundrum, we need to start by looking at what happiness actually means. […]
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Roman Krznaric: The Power of Outrospection
Introspection is out, and outrospection is in. Philosopher and author Roman Krznaric explains how we can help drive social change by stepping outside ourselves. Roman Krznaric is an internationally renowned expert on empathy and author of Empathy: A Handbook for Revolution. He is a founding faculty member of The School of Life and founder of […]
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What if money was no object?
“Let’s suppose, I do this often in vocational guidance of students, they come to me and say, well, “we’re getting out of college and we have the faintest idea what we want to do”. So I always ask the question, “What would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really […]
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The Secret of Happiness Revealed
Happiness comes from choosing to be happy with whatever you do, strengthening your closest relationships and taking care of yourself physically, financially and emotionally. Thus revealed a recent survey of Harvard’s class of 1980. They compared responses between those “extremely happy” and the rest of the respondents. 2010 Survey An earlier survey of this same […]
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Living the Four Agreements: A life-changing Journey
In the best-selling book “The Four Agreements” Don Miguel Ruiz, based on ancient Toltec wisdom, gives four principles to practice in order to create love and happiness in your life. Adopting and committing to these agreements is simple. Upon reading Don Miguel’s wisdom many people have their eyes opened to a new possibility for living […]
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TIPE: The key to bringing positive education to traumatized students
Recent statistics in the US show that over 40% of students are affected by trauma. The Trauma Informed Positive Education (TIPE) model aims to connect and prepare trauma affected students to understand and apply positive education to their own lives in school and beyond. A new project is recently being undertaken at the Centre of […]