Belle Beth Cooper | August 12, 2013 Happiness is so interesting, because we all have different ideas about what it is and how to get it. It’s also no surprise that it’s the Nr.1 value for Buffer’s culture, if you see our slidedeck about it. So naturally we are obsessed with it. I would love to be happier, as…
Eloise Marie Valadez | July 29, 2013 Author and positive psychology expert Shawn Achor travels the world to spread his messages on achieving happiness. Achor, cofounder of the Institute of Applied Positive Research and founder of Good Think Inc., was recently in Chicago to speak about his work on the link between happiness, success, and productivity.…
Kare Anderson | July 21, 2013 The second part of this story is the real clincher for considering that happiness can be a choice. An elementary school teacher in rural Arkansas made a bracelet of charms of each student in her class so she could continually remind herself of how she cared about each one, and her…
Jeffrey Goldsmith with Shawn Achor | May 28, 2013 The secret to a more productive, creative, and flexible workforce? M&Ms, thank-you cards, and whatever else makes them smile. In a psychological study, 44 internists are given a hypothetical patient file, including a misdiagnosis from another hospital, and asked to decipher the medical problem at hand. Half of…
Cathy Garrard | Men’s Health So stressed you might punch the next guy who pisses you off? Bad idea. Instead, soothe yourself by reading about these surprising health benefits of being put under pressure. Stress gets an awful lot of bad press, and not without good reason: As many as 90% of all doctor’s office…
Heidi Grant Halvorson | March 14, 2013 You are stressed — by your deadlines, your responsibilities, your ever-increasing workload, and your life in general. If you are like me, you even stress about how much stress you’re feeling — worrying that it is interfering with your performance and possibly taking years off of your life. This…
Chris Berdik | GLOBE CORRESPONDENT March 10, 2013 YOU KNOW the feeling. In your head, it’s like a jackhammer. In your chest, it’s like a vice. In your stomach, it’s like a lead weight. It’s stress. Stress costs the American economy about $300 billion a year in medical bills and missed work, according to the World…
Joe Donatelli | March 4, 2013 Books, daytime talk shows, Jack Johnson—everywhere we turn someone is telling us to avoid stress. But those authors, experts, and mellow crooners might be doing everyone a disservice. Stress can be good. Alia Crum of Columbia University and her colleagues will publish research in the April 2013 edition of The Journal…
Emma Goldberg | Staff Writer February 26, 2013 Amidst midterm season, President-elect Peter Salovey has a message for students — stress can be good. In a recent study to be published in the April edition of The Journal of Social and Psychological Sciences, Salovey collaborated with lead author and Columbia adjunct professor Alia Crum GRD…
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