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Lately, I’ve been reading a lot on myths and stories and the power that narratives can have on how we view ourselves and thus how we live our lives. Myths and stories are a huge part of most of the world’s cultures. Native Americans, for example, still hold on to many of the myths [...]
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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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Through the grapevine I heard about this wonderful book (I haven’t read it yet, but it sounds very good) that came out recently on aging well, which showed that living the kind of happy, fulfilled life that I talk about here at Improved Lives will, in combination with a few other things, predict health [...]
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I’ve just started reading Toward a Psychology of Being by Abraham Maslow and I think that Maslow brings up an excellent point about mindsets. The context of this quote is that Maslow is talking about the differences between European psychologists and American psychologists. He says that:
The Europeans are stressing the self-making of the self, in [...]
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