There’s a new research study out of the UK on what makes people happy, and it has some interesting results.
Happiness seems to be a top priority for the UK, as a lot of happiness research and experiments are conducted there. Good news for anyone living in the UK.
The researchers split more than 26,000 people up [...]
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There’s a post written by your truly over at AlexShalman.com called How to Escape the Curse of Being Average.
I really believe that a desire to be average is ingrained in to us from a lot of different sources but being average really isn’t all that great of a thing to want to be. I think [...]
This isn’t a full post, just a couple note worthy articles I think you might find interesting.
Smelly Dreams
My last post, The State of Consciousness You’re Missing Out On, was all about sleep, dreams, and the fact that consciousness never really quits. In the comments, Rod brought up an interesting point, that even in our dreams, [...]
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A few months ago I read Jeff Warren’s Head Trip: Adventures on the Wheel of Consciousness (you can read a fascinating interview with Jeff Warren here) which deals with all the different states of consciousness that exist. Most people would say there are two, maybe three states of consciousness: awake, sleeping, and dreaming. They [...]
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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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14Aug08There is a guest post by yours truly over at The Positivity Blog called How to Create Positive Emotions.
The post is all about why positive emotions are important for personal growth and how we can experience more positive emotions in our day to day lives.
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
