Tag: happiness
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The perks of giving: how spending money on others can lower blood pressure
According to a new study, “prosocial spending” may be as good for blood pressure as a healthy diet and exercise A lot of people believe that the way to become happier and healthier is by spending money on one’s self. Putting in extra hours at work and saving up money to be able to buy […]
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Charles Duhigg: “Productivity emerges when people push themselves to think differently”
A Pullitzer price winner assets on how being more productive without sacrificing happiness When Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter Charles Duhigg talks about productivity, he’s not just talking about efficiency and profits and time management. To him, what it means to be productive is bound up with the idea of happiness. Productivity is figuring out “the best […]
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The United Arab Emirates Call to Action on Happiness
Ohood Al Roumi has been appointed by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum as Minister of State for Happiness. Remaining responsible as DG of the Prime Minister’s Office. The 2015 World Happiness Report ranked it No. 20, above Britain and below Belgium. Switzerland was No. 1, and the United States was No. 15. […]
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Which Attitudes Will Make us Individually and Socially Happier and Healthier?
This paper describes a dynamic system for the interrelationships between happiness and health that considers three main attitudes to life: α, β, and γ for Aristotelian, Epicurean, and Stoic, respectively. All variables that have been shown by empirical and theoretical studies to affect individual health and happiness are included (i.e., employment, occupation, education, ethical freedom, […]
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Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-being
“This book will help you flourish.” With this unprecedented promise, internationally esteemed psychologist Martin Seligman beginsFlourish, his first book in ten years—and the first to present his dynamic new concept of what well-being really is. Traditionally, the goal of psychology has been to relieve human suffering, but the goal of the Positive Psychology movement, which […]