Prototype for happiness/well-being card deck.
What do you think?
My calling is to help a millon people lead happier and more satisfying lives. Mainly business people caught up in the rat race. There’s great hope and cause for celebration. Moore’s Law favors us all. Help me reach a million by the end of the year. Pass the word.
Let’s go viral now
Everybody’s learning how
Come on and safari with me
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If you feel your life’s not all it could be, consider joining us in Berkeley on Wednesday evening for a small group session on finding true happiness. This is the unofficial member meeting of Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center. I’m speaking.
Can This Marriage Be Saved?Return to: http://clomedia.com/views/articles/can-this-marriage-be-saved/
The National Institute of Mental Health spent millions of your tax dollars to build John and Julie Gottman a Love Lab. At the lab, personnel observed thousands of couples. They shot video, monitored heart rates, jitteriness and skin conductivity. They amassed recordings of hundreds of couples interacting at different times in their relationships.
The couples in the Continue reading
D R A F T
Some of you have inquired about my research into happiness and well-being. I paused the project for six weeks. Upon return, I realized there’s a lot more to it. Taking a broader perspective, I realized you can’t deal with happiness without addressing joy, gratitude, serenity, interest, hope, pride, amusement, inspiration, awe, love, sadness, anxiety, anger, motivation, and relationships, too.
Emotional business (which I will christen EB right here and now) concerns precisely the Continue reading
You can achieve more success by fully leveraging your strengths than by shoring up your weaknesses.
Spend twenty minutes to take the VIA Survey of Character Strengths on the Authentic Happiness site.
Find opportunities to apply your strengths in everything you do. You’ll be happier.
Do it. It works.
Christoper Peterson
Christopher Peterson, the godfather of personal strengths research, died this month, leaving behind a treasure trove of findings and insights.
I just got back from the first local member meeting of the Greater Good Science Center here in Berkeley. Started by a grant a dozen years ago, Greater Good was a print magazine. The founders imagined “an organization that would identify the roots of healthy relationships and flourishing individuals, exploring qualities such as compassion, altruism, respect, trust, tolerance, and wisdom.” The print magazine morphed into a web publication, which appears to be its major outreach program. They Continue reading
Pier 39, home to a dozen restaurants and a thousand sea lions.
Thirty years ago my boss gave me an assignment I’ll never forget.
“I’ve rented a Santa Claus costume for tonight’s Christmas party,” he said.
“Great!” I replied.
“And you are going to wear it,” he told me.
That evening I changed into the red suit and beard in the parking lot San Francisco’s Pier 39.
We were holding the company Continue reading
Ten years ago next month, Clifford Nass and Byron Reeves published The Media Equation: How People Treat Computers, Television, and New Media Like Real People and Places. The Stanford profs had conducted a series of standard psychology experiments but substituted a computer for one of the participants. From the Amazon review:
“Fresh evidence of human gullibility never fails to entertain. Stanford professors Reeves and Nass provide plenty of cocktail-party ammunition with findings from 35 laboratory Continue reading
Taking a Stand for Office Ergonomics
The health hazards of sitting for long stretches are significant even for people who are quite active when they’re not sitting down
Still, scientists have determined that after an hour or more of sitting, the production of enzymes that burn fat in the body declines by as much as 90 percent. Extended sitting, they add, slows the body’s metabolism of glucose and lowers the levels of good (HDL) cholesterol in the blood. Those are risk factors Continue reading
Foreign environments exhilarate me. I just got back from Online Educa Berlin and a series of private conversations in Europe. Insights are overflowing my ability to record them and I’m having a ball.
Online Educa always leaves a special afterglow. Over the course of three days, I conversed with hundreds of colleagues from forty or fifty countries. I used to say that after conversation, the most important learning accelerant was beer. I’ve changed my mind. Riesling is a more effective learning Continue reading
