Author and life coach Caroline Adams Miller has recently started a youtube channel, with several good videos up and, it’s safe to assume, more to come.
According to her bio, Caroline is also a graduate of the MAPP (Masters in Applied Positive Psychology) program at the University of Pennsylvania, which is taught in part by Martin [...]
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The How of Happiness on 20/20
15Feb09There’s a video up on Youtube featuring Sonya Lyubomirsky on 20/20. She goes over some of the basics of happiness research and how it’s relevant to the average person’s life.
What’s interesting though is that the hosts profile twins who have very similar lifestyles but very different average happiness levels. Twins are used a lot in [...]
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I wanted to pass along this great little flash video that deals with the point of life. Is it sucess, or money, or is it instead the journey and the experiences it contains?
The video is great, and it’s animated by the creators of South Park, of all people.
You can see it here.
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In the video below, the presenter is Clay Shirky, who brings up an excellent point while talking at the 2008 Web 2.0 Expo. He says that the shocking amount of time that we spend watching TV is shrinking, and is being replaced by time spent online.
And being online is not just about absorbing, [...]
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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 [...]
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.
The [...]
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You’ll have to forgive the lack of posting lately, my computer died and most of my blogging stuff is residing safely on a hard drive I can’t access. My new laptop is on the way but it looks like it’s going to be awhile.
Anyway, that doesn’t mean there’s nothing to talk about. I [...]
Video: The Happiness Advantage
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This is a great video from positive psychology researcher Shawn Achor. Shawn is speaking at some sort of business conference I think, but the advantages of happiness that he talks about are very applicable to anyone, business oriented or not.
Since embedding on this particular video is disabled for some reason you have to [...]
