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What predicts a happy and fulfilled life?
September 4, 2014 Comments Off on What predicts a happy and fulfilled life?

Art of Manliness –

Nothing quite like the Grant Study has ever been attempted; as Vaillant puts it, this research represents “one of the first vantage points the world has ever had on which to stand and look prospectively at a man’s life from eighteen to ninety.” The mountains of data collected over more than seven decades have become a rich trove for examining what factors present in a man’s younger years best predict whether he will be successful and happy into old age.
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Are we developing the right kind of smart?
August 29, 2014 Comments Off on Are we developing the right kind of smart?

HBR

There seems to be wide support for the idea that we are living in an “age of complexity”, which implies that the world has never been more intricate. This idea is based on the rapid pace of technological changes, and the vast amount of information that we are generating (the two are related). Yet consider that philosophers like Leibniz (17th century) and Diderot (18th century) were already complaining about information overload. The “horrible mass of books” they referred to may have represented only a tiny portion of what we know today, but much of what we know today will be equally insignificant to future generations.
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The most wonderful time of the year?
August 21, 2014 Comments Off on The most wonderful time of the year?

Guardian

You may be feeling zen now but for many teachers, the start of term is like an onslaught. To help you get ready for a new school year, psychologist Gail Kinman offers advice on how to prepare and how to maintain a healthy work-life balance.

It’s the most wonderful time of the year —
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Food for thought…
August 16, 2014 Comments Off on Food for thought…

Imgur –

The image mostly speaks for itself — disturbingly so. Think it over — what colour is most of our world? What colour are the vast majority of our public institutions, social networks, political leaders and churches?

(For full-sized image, just right click and open in a new tab — or click the link to the main image host.)
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I’ll bet you’re right and she’s WRONG!!!
August 14, 2014 Comments Off on I’ll bet you’re right and she’s WRONG!!!

Huffington Post

At the end of the study, researchers found that when parents argued, their relationship with their child was negatively affected. However, mothers were able to recover from this fairly quickly and the next day, even showed improvement in their parent-child relationship.

“Moms appeared to compensate for their marital tension,” said Chrystyna D. Kouros, lead author of the study, in a press release.
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Is parenthood a form of trauma?
July 1, 2014 Comments Off on Is parenthood a form of trauma?

Times

Parenthood takes its toll on your relationships as well. A 2009 study in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology found that the transition to parenthood is linked to reduced happiness in the marriage and more negative behaviour during spousal conflict. Evidence also demonstrates that this transition is connected to substantial reductions in the size of a parent’s networks of family and friends.
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Perhaps we’re doing something right…
May 27, 2014 Comments Off on Perhaps we’re doing something right…

Vox

The Centers for Disease Control released a monster report last week on the state of Americans’ health. The 511-page report makes one thing abundantly clear: teens are behaving better right now than pretty much any other time since the federal government began collecting data.

It’s short, it’s sweet, it’s mainly comprised of charts and it’s the perfect buzz-kill for the usual narrative of, “Kids these days are never gonna amount to anything.”
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The virtues of low self esteem.
May 25, 2014 Comments Off on The virtues of low self esteem.

Salon

Noting that there are “almost no findings showing that [high] self-esteem causes anything [beneficial] at all,” University of Pennsylvania psychology professor Martin Seligman laments:

“Something striking has happened to the self-esteem of American children during the era of raising our children to feel good. They have never been more depressed.”

This is no doubt partly because raised to believe that they are special and perfect and entitled to all good things, they face terrible comedowns in the real world.
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How to know what to do with your life.
May 15, 2014 Comments Off on How to know what to do with your life.

Zen Habits

The idea behind all of this is that you can’t know what you’re going to do with your life right now, because you don’t know who you’re going to be, what you’ll be able to do, what you’ll be passionate about, who you’ll meet, what opportunities will come up, or what the world will be like. But you do know this: if you are prepared, you can do anything you want.

Prepare yourself by learning about your mind, becoming trustworthy, building things, overcoming procrastination, getting good at discomfort and uncertainty.
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The cost of keeping up with the idealized lives of others.
May 11, 2014 Comments Off on The cost of keeping up with the idealized lives of others.

Everyday Mindfulness –

They even have a name for it. The discrepancy monitor. The discrepancy monitor is described as a process that continually monitors and evaluates our self and our current situation against a gold standard – our idea of what is desired, required or expected. This is often the root cause of that rumination we find ourselves doing on automatic pilot much of the time.
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