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I’ve been talking a lot lately about the environments that we live in, and with good reason, I keep finding more and more evidence that they shape our personalities and our opportunities for personal growth.
Motivation being such a difficult hurdle for people to get over, I figure any helpful boosts our environments can give [...]
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Back in June I had a post called How You can Participate in Real Positive Psychology Studies. It went over a few really interesting research studies being done by Dr. Martin Seligman that needed volunteers.
Many of these research studies ask people to change their lives in a certain way, the hope being that the [...]
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In his newly released TED talk, Dr. Martin Seligman gives an excellent introduction to the field of Positive Psychology, which is a major part of what’s covered here at Improved Lives.
It’s from 2004, so it misses some of the latest advancements that have been made, but it also covers many of the more [...]
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Donald, over at Life Optimizer, has published a guest post I wrote for him called 4 Guidelines for Increasing Daily Happiness.
The post deals with how there are three categories of things that bring us happiness: our genetics, our circumstances, and our intentional activities
The post is all about how to maximize the happiness we get from [...]
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This post is a bit of a conglomeration of ideas, and I haven’t quite worked out how all the pieces fit together in my mind yet, so if it seems a bit disorganized and unfinished just bear with me, I really wanted to get this out there.
I stumbled across this article from a 2001 psychological [...]
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There is a theory, called the Biophilia Hypothesis, that states that we have a love of nature literally built in to us.
It is believed that this love of nature runs so deep within us that being in and around nature actually has physical as well as psychological benefits.
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The idea behind this post is quite similar to the idea behind another post I recently wrote, Boost Your Personal Growth by Learning a New Language.
The basic idea is that who we are thinking about when we are doing something actually has a big impact on how we do that something.
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There is a new study out that tracks the happiness levels of 52 countries over an average of 17 years.
The interesting thing about this study is that because it covers a substantial number of years and a substantial number of countries, it allows us to understand what factors are influencing happiness levels within these countries.
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