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Ethics, being human and the soul come to the fore when a 7-year old finds a bag of Pounds just days before the currency is switched to Euros and learns what we are really made of.
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When Chip Conley, dynamic author of the bestselling Peak, suffered a series of devastating personal and professional setbacks, he began using what he came to call “Emotional Equations” (such as Joy = Love – Fear) to help him focus on the variables in life that he could handle, rather than...
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Research shows that helping others makes us happier. But in her groundbreaking work on generosity and joy, social psychologist Elizabeth Dunn found that there’s a catch: it matters how we help.
You can find deep, lasting happiness in a good deed that no one knows you did.
In addition to being a deeply embedded characteristic which is correlated with happiness . . . giving also has significant benefits for givers.
Researchers say they’ve discovered that even thinking about doing something generous has real mood-boosting benefits in the brain.
Determining why, when, and to whom people feel compelled to be generous affords invaluable insight into positive and problematic ways of life.
This work aims to change the way we think and feel about money. Bloom discusses the social context of money and encourages the transformation of personal, organizational and political financial behaviour. He argues with the right attitude, it is possible to support wealth, justice and happiness.
Helen Russell is a journalist, author, and happiness researcher. Some of the things she talks about in this episode are the benefits of happiness, the strategies we should stop using when we feel sad, and the coping skills that can help us embrace the sadness so we can ultimately grow happier.
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Marc Ian Barasch, dubbed "one of today's coolest grown-ups" by Interview magazine, sets out on a journey to the heart of compassion. He discovers its power to change who we are and the society we have become. Compassion, he concludes, is "a prescription for authentic joy.
If you are reading this, then you’re likely plagued with anxiety. The good news is that you don’t have to be. You can live a life without so much anxiety and stress. You can train the mind to feel contentment, peace and joy—even in the midst of difficult circumstances.