January 2020

Optimism is crucial for happiness. Optimism helps to create positive emotions like happiness; and it also helps boost resilience and thereby, limits negative emotions such as unhappiness. At the heart of happiness, thriving and flourishing is an optimistic attitude and here's how you can remain...

via Forbes by Mark Travers It has been said that ignorance is bliss. Well, not according to new research published in the Journal of Positive Psychology. A team of psychologists led by Kostadin Kushlev of Georgetown University examined the idea that individual happiness may act as an impediment to solving...

via Psychology Today by Jeffrey Bernstein People often mistake positive psychology to mean putting on a happy face and living without any negative thoughts. More realistically, my new book, The Stress Survival Guide for Teens, describes positive psychology as seeing your strengths, learning how to become more optimistic, gaining grit,...

via Forbes by Bryan Robinson If you’re one of the 60% of American workers who makes New Year resolutions, I have 10 tips for you to consider for 2020. We all know that achieving personal success and happiness depends on having proper balance between work...

via the Guardian by Elle Hunt The last time I felt joy was at an event that would be many people’s vision of hell: a drunken Taylor Swift club-night singalong in the early hours of the morning a few weekends ago. I certainly experience joy, either as peaks of...