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Happy to share with you this profound conversation we had with one of our favorite sages, Elisabet Sahtouris, during the Thanksgiving holidays. Hear her comment on the “ecstasy of unity and connection.” \u00a0An incredible person, scholar, scientist, and a woman, from whom we draw so much insight and wisdom. \u00a0An\u00a0interview worth your time…<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>
We found that happiness can spread like a virus through social networks. In fact, if your friends\u2019 friends\u2019 friend becomes happy, it significantly increases the chance that you\u2019ll be happy. \u2013Dr. James Fowler, in “Happiness Is… – MSNBC.” 4 Facts & Stats on How Happiness Is Contagious A study by two professors from Harvard and […]<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>
Seeing eye-to-eye about the employee-supervisor relationship is equally, if not more important than the actual quality of the relationship – Fadel Matta, lead investigator on the study and a management researcher in MSU\u2019s Broad College of Business. A new study led by Michigan State University business scholars finds that workers are more motivated if they […]<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>
The quotes in this post are all by Martin Seligman, from the lecture \u201cIdeas at the House: Martin Seligman – Well-Being and Happiness,\u201d which can be viewed at the bottom of this post. 1) Traditional Psychotherapy Doesn\u2019t Deal with Achieving Happiness, but with Reducing Suffering Freud and Schopenhauer told us the best we could […]<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>
Global Problems Call The Need For A Worldwide Human Family With the current globalization of our problems, we need to extend our circle of empathy and view humanity as a worldwide extended human family. As long as we refrain from facing that challenge, divisiveness and unsolvable conflicts will persist. –Rodrigue Tremblay, in “Rodrigue Tremblay C.V. […]<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>
We are, first of all, not solitary creatures and second of all, we are deeply embedded in the lives of others. It\u2019s very easy to forget that and to engage in an atomistic fallacy \u2014 where we think that all we have to do is study the individual components of a system in order to […]<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>
According to a new report from the National Institute for Safety Management, on any given day, the average American’s life is entrusted to more than 2,000 different people who are complete strangers. The report, which shows how any one of these anonymous individuals making a single mistake can easily cause another person’s death, concluded […]<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>
An experiment published in PLOS ONE showed that when 9- to 11-year old kids were asked to do acts of kindness for several weeks, not only did they get happier over time but they became more popular with their peers. And another big intervention we just finished at a company in Spain showed that […]<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>
As a songwriter I always felt a huge responsibility to write something from my heart that would add to the world and make it better place for all. Finding Mutual Responsibility and the Roundtable Live Project showed me that others felt this same concern and had found a way to work towards making it […]<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>
Enjoy this\u00a0new song by Alicia Keys with a humanitarian message. This is what she wrote on her Facebook page: “A MESSAGE FROM “ALICIA KEYS” – The day I wrote this song, I was sitting in a circle of people of all ages and we were asked, \u201cWhy are you here.\u201d Why am I here?? This […]<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>
In the NEF’s report “Five Ways to Wellbeing:\u00a0A report presented to the Foresight Project on communicating the evidence base for improving people’s well-being,” the\u00a0factor stated to affect happiness the most is social connections. In 2008, at the request of the British government and financed by the British Ministry of Science (New Economic Foundation – NEF), […]<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>
In the article “Emotional Contagion Can Take Down Your Whole Team,” Tony Schwartz,\u00a0president and CEO of The Energy Project and the author of Be Excellent at Anything, describes\u00a0how negativity begins in an office setting by one person talking and passing\u00a0negative emotions from one to the other, and how negative emotions in this setting have destructive […]<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>
In this article “Collaboration Makes Our Brains Bigger,”\u00a0Gaurav Bhalla references a TED talk by Dan Gilbert to mention how the human brain has grown significantly in size over the last 200,000 years due to its power of imagination. Moreover,\u00a0the development of the kind of imagination was mentioned as well, i.e. that We moved from imagining, […]<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>
In the article “Don’t Neglect Your Power to Bring People Together,” Ron Ashkenas describes a situation where a manager first tried fulfilling a certain task according to common managerial lines, of “calling meetings for their own direct staff and those who report to them.” However, although everyone agreed and got to work, little of the […]<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>
Mark Ellenbogen and Christopher Cardoso, researchers in Concordia’s Centre for Research in Human Development are taking a closer look at oxytocin, a hormone traditionally studied for its role in childbirth and breastfeeding, and more recently for its effect on social behaviour. Their latest study, published in the peer-reviewed journal\u00a0Psychoneuroendocrinology, shows that oxytocin can increase a […]<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, are challenging long-held beliefs that human beings are wired to be selfish. In a wide range of studies, social scientists are amassing a growing body of evidence to show we are evolving to become more compassionate and collaborative in our quest to survive and thrive. In contrast […]<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>