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The Secret to Happiness at Work

By Arthur C. Brooks — 2021

What matters is not so much the “what” of a job, but more the “who” and the “why”: Job satisfaction comes from people, values, and a sense of accomplishment.

Read on www.theatlantic.com

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Can We Change Our Mental Health Genes?

Hyla Cass shares the words of William Walsh, a nutritional medicine expert.

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Hyla Cass
2012
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Looking for the Teachable Moments

“What am I meant to learn from this situation? What’s life trying to teach me here?” Questions like those help me find meaning in apparently meaningless situations.

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Parker J. Palmer
2015
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Parker Palmer on Autumn, Aging, and Acceptance

The author of On the Brink of Everything finds inspiration in nature’s cycles of death and renewal.

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Parker Palmer
2018
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How to Make Every Relationship a Success

Ditch the idea of a "failed relationship" and make each relationship you have one that you can learn and grow from.

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Rich Roll
2016
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Making Relationships a Little Smoother Around the Edges

The more we can provide the conditions for happiness in others, the more likely we'll find the relationships we seek.

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Andy Puddicombe
2013
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The Dalai Lama: Happiness from Within

In this essay, I discuss what enduring happiness means according to the Buddhist perspective and the ways in which the Dalai Lama embodies this enduring happiness.

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Matthieu Ricard
2011
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Understand Your Emotions to Grow and Heal

In McLaren’s view, we typically perceive emotions as problems, which we then thoughtlessly express or repress. She advocates a more mindful approach, where we step back and see our emotions as sources of information.

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Marci Sharif
2020
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Repressing or Expressing Emotions? There’s Another Choice!

I don’t know what happened to emotions in this society. They are the least understood, most maligned, and most ridiculously over-analyzed aspects of human life.

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Karla McLaren
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Holocaust Survivor Viktor Frankl Explains Why If We Have True Meaning in Our Lives, We Can Make It Through the Darkest of Times

In one school of popular reasoning, people judge historical outcomes that they think are favorable as worthy tradeoffs for historical atrocities. The argument appears in some of the most inappropriate contexts, such as discussions of slavery or the Holocaust.

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Josh Jones
2017
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Viktor Frankl on the Human Search for Meaning

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”

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Maria Popova
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