There’s a fascinating article over at the Boston Globe on Jewish WW 2 survivors from the Lodz ghetto, which was a ghetto in Poland that had as many as 200,000 Jews living in it. The article explains how the doctors in the ghetto, having no access to medicine or equipment of any kind, used what [...]
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You Owe it to Others to be Happy
13Jan09You might think that your happiness begins and ends with you. If you thought that, you would probably also think that the happiness of others is fantastic, but has nothing to do with you.
But you would be wrong on both.
Human beings are, if nothing else, social animals. We interact with others constantly, we require it [...]
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One of the things I find most troubling about any kind of personal growth is the focus on the personal part. This inward focus is contradictory to the realities of personal growth, which, if looked at carefully, shows that personal growth has a lot to do with our external world, and especially the people [...]
Have you subscribed yet?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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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.
For example, the researchers [...]
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Back in May I wrote a post called Is Happiness Contagious? (which is, I think, one of the most fascinating posts on ImprovedLives) which was all about the research of Dr. Nicholas Christakis.
Dr. Christakis was trying to discover whether having obese people in your social network was more likely to make you obese too, [...]
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When you get right down to it, most methods of achieving personal growth are rooted in common sense. I think common sense tells us that bad relationships can certainly hold us and our personal growth back, but I never really thought ending a bad relationship could actually be a boost to personal growth.
The [...]
Is Happiness Contagious?
10May08In my post on positive emotions being a means to personal growth I mentioned a few different ways to create more positive emotions in your life, and one of those ways was by changing your social network to include more positive people and less negative people. This study on obesity demonstrates the importance of who [...]
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