March 2010

Employees Who Are Engaged In Their Work Have Happier Home Life ScienceDaily (Aug. 25, 2009) _ã” A Kansas State University study shows that invigorated and dedicated employees carry over their positive work experiences for a happier home life. K-State psychology researchers studied how positive work experiences extend...

06 March, 2010

For decades, psychology and its researchers have focused on the negative side of humanity _ã” the things that bring dysfunction into our lives. Depression, sadness, anxiety, you name it. More recently, psychologists have also begun to better understand the value of positive emotions too. This...

06 March, 2010

Achieving happiness at work is a skill that can be acquired, says Jane Howard, chief people officer of San Francisco-based Joie de Vivre Hotels. She flexed her happiness muscle recently--one cold February morning in a not-so-pleasant airport terminal. Howard had woken at 3:30 a.m. to...

05 March, 2010

...give some serious thought to these important questions which I've modified from a seminar I attended this morning (thanks Ben Renshaw!). With whom should I spend more time? To whom should I listen to more? ...

05 March, 2010

Talking Your Way to Happiness: Well-being Is Related to Having Less Small Talk and More Substantive Conversations Is a happy life filled with trivial chatter or reflective and profound conversations? Psychological scientists Matthias R. Mehl, Shannon E. Holleran, and C. Shelby Clark from the University of...

05 March, 2010

What exactly is happiness and how do we achieve it? Is it a gift we give to ourselves or is it part of a reward system? The intangible state of simply being happy is hard to find and there are no maps or GPS trackers...

04 March, 2010

Aditya Chakrabortty - The Guardian, Tuesday 2 March 2010 Marching in the drizzle against wars in far-off countries, writing letters protesting the government's latest reactionary policy, sitting through interminable meetings that keep sprouting Any Other Business. It may be noble, but political activism is hardly...

04 March, 2010