Sheryl Crow in her song "Soak up the Sun" says, "It is not having what you want, it's wanting what you've got." Every culture seems to have a phrase that describes a hidden weakness. For example, many intellectuals in Northern Europe say, "If you are...
I just found out about this article in Wellbeing Magazine in which I'm featured :)
For many, the concept of happiness can sometimes seem like the Holy Grail _ã_ mystical, elusive and totally out of reach. On the contrary, the cheerful truth is that whether...
True scholarship (and true happiness) consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.
- James Russell Lowell
What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him....
Chris Peterson is one of the most respected positive psychologists and one whose opinion is both highly regarded and widely read. So we thought we'd bring you one of the articles he recently wrote for Psychology Today...
I have been sympathetic to some criticisms of positive psychology as being too "self"-centered - focusing on how individuals can make themselves happier or otherwise improve their own lives. It can appear that positive psychology is a continuation of a "me-me-me" egocentric, self-indulgent culture. There...
We like to think that we are in charge of our choices. Even the positive psychology happiness pizza (apologies to Sonja Lyubomirsky) shows us that 40% of the variance in happiness among people is the result of personal choice. But what if making a choice...
