Gretchen Rubin (author of the book The Happiness Project) describes in her post How To Be Happier – in Four Easy Lessons the series of truths she came up with from a study of Buddhism. Her First Splendid Truth: “To be happier, you have to think about feeling good, feeling bad, and feeling right, in [...]
Does happiness always enhance creativity? A study by June Gruber of Yale University and others (“A Dark Side of Happiness? How, When, and Why Happiness Is Not Always Good”), notes “Emotional states exert significant effects on memory, judgment, decision-making, and creativity.” Her study also reports that “moderate levels of positive emotions engender more creativity, but [...]
From Parade magazine: In his new book, Flourish, positive-psychology guru Martin Seligman looks beyond happiness and asks: How can we create a rich, fulfilling, meaningful life? We spoke with him about what it means to flourish. What’s the difference between flourishing and simply being happy? To have a good life—to flourish—it’s not enough to just [...]
A study reported in the journal Psychological Science concluded that watching funny videos on the internet at work isn’t necessarily wasting time. “People may be taking advantage of the latest psychological science — putting themselves in a good mood so they can think more creatively. “Generally, positive mood has been found to enhance creative problem [...]
“You’re happy if you think you’re happy.” Gretchen Rubin How much of our happiness and satisfaction in life is due to circumstance or other people, and how much is it a matter of conscious choice? In the new movie The Adjustment Bureau (written and directed by George Nolfi, based on a short story by Philip [...]
From Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, via ScienceDaily: People who watch funny videos on the internet at work aren’t necessarily wasting time. They may be taking advantage of the latest psychological science — putting themselves in a good mood so they can think more creatively. “Generally, positive mood has been [...]
I could write a few novels with the material from my romantic and work relationships. Lots of drama and disappointment, and loads of self-recrimination. How does giftedness figure into the patterns of our connections with others? In this excerpt from his article, Solutions for the Problems of Giftedness, Richard O’Connor, Ph.D., gives some interesting answers. [...]
Janet Attwood: In our society, people have been taught that you can’t make a living and do what you love to do at the same time. People are waking up to the realization that – to the extent you are living your passion you’re happy and successful. I’m talking about being happy and successful in [...]
Medical News Today notes “It’s a hot-buzz topic that covers everything from improving workplace performance and successfully climbing the corporate ladder to building the happiest of marriages to ending school bullying. “But what exactly is Emotional Intelligence (EI)? If we lack it, can we learn it? And how do we know if our EI is [...]
“Acting is what I love to do. I wouldn’t trade it for the world. I don’t think of it as work. It’s really fun for me.” Dakota Fanning has also said, “It’s fun to know what I want to do – you know, when I grow up. I have friends who say, ‘Oh, maybe I’ll [...]
Our Complex Love Affair With Designer Consciousness From Medical News Today The spectacular increase in the use of psychiatric drugs over the past 50 years involved what a University at Buffalo historian calls “a massive break with what we consider ‘normal’ mental health,” one linked to myriad social and cultural changes in America. “Happy Pills [...]
As introverts, we may not have the same values or interests in “fun” activities as those who are more extroverted. That may be another reason highly sensitive people and introverts are less acknowledged, supported and even valued in our outgoing, sociable-oriented culture. Not that introversion and high sensitivity are the same trait, but they often [...]
Excerpted from article Positive Psychology Includes Negative Emotions, By Dave Shearon, Positive Psychology News. “Recently, I was teaching ‘Detecting Icebergs’, one of the resilience skills described in The Resilience Factor. “I mentioned the importance of using personal examples whenever possible and gave a quick example of a personal iceberg I had uncovered. I mentioned that [...]
Mood disorders like anxiety and depression generally interfere with thinking and creativity. A variety of writers including Eric Maisel, Kay Redfield Jamison and Tom Wootton express different perspectives on my site Depression and Creativity. There is even a post on Irritable Male Syndrome, about the work of Jed Diamond. But what about being grumpy? Here [...]
Dacher Keltner (PhD in Social Psychology, Stanford University) has worked with Paul Ekman, and is now a professor in U.C. Berkeley’s Psychology Department. Here are the Youtube notes from the following video : In Born to Be Good, Dacher Keltner demonstrates that humans are not hardwired to lead lives that are “nasty, brutish, and short” [...]
Tama J. Kieves, an honors graduate of Harvard Law School, left her law practice with a large corporate law firm to write and lead workshops as a life/work and creativity coach. She writes: Yes, it’s easier to assume doom. We fit in. We’d probably even be seen as thoughtful, prophetic, and on the money. But [...]
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Site author: Douglas Eby, M.A./Psychology, is a writer and researcher on the psychology of creative expression and personal growth, especially for high ability adults. He is publisher of the Talent Development Resources series of sites.
