By Dacher Keltner — 2016
According to Dacher Keltner, there are important evolutionary reasons: It’s good for our minds, bodies, and social connections.
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CLEAR ALL
Some people harbor the illusion that rest is a luxury they do not have time for, but the reality is that rest is a necessity.
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Sadness is a central part of our lives, yet it’s typically ignored at work, hurting employees and managers alike.
If we can process our regrets with tenderness and compassion, we can use these hard memories as a part of our wisdom bank.
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In The Zen of Therapy, Mark Epstein weaves together two ways of understanding how humans can feel more settled in their lives.
Pleasure can be a boon or a burden, depending on our relationship to it. It can leaven laborious days, or lead us to waste them. The pleasures of a mild stimulant such as caffeine can be harmless or even beneficial, but the pleasures of amphetamines can be deadly.
Awe is kind of mind-bending, and it alters how a person perceives the world in subtle but meaningful ways.
There are various developmental theories that go into the tool kit that parents and educators utilize to help mold caring and ethically intact people, including those of Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget and American psychologist Lawrence Kohlberg.
Nudge kids to be their best selves by encouraging them to consume positive, inspiring media and online content.
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A discussion of the philosophy of happiness in life can be seen as an examination of the very nature of happiness and what it means for the universe.
The most popular course at Yale teaches how to be happy. We took it for you.