Posts Tagged with ‘happiness’
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5 pack of slides on complexity theory, leadership, management and psychology
19 Jul 2011I prepared these slides to help students revise and consolidate what they know about complex adaptive systems, psychology, management, leadership,…
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If Big Society is the answer, what is the question?
12 Mar 2011Well, yes what was the question? Academics do know a thing or two. In this post, I try to translate (and connect) a recent article on Leadership by Keith Grint of Warwick BS to events in Egypt and the psychology of happy and lucky action. It is practical. It is connected. We know how; we are only waiting to try how.
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Khalil Gibran and The Happiness Index
13 Feb 2011Anyone puzzled by what The Happiness Index will measure will be relieved to read Khalil Gibran's words on joy and sorrow in The Prophet. "I say unto you, joy and sorrow are inseperable".
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Triumph of the Human Spirit
12 Jan 2011To see happiness as dependent on sadness is so hard. We have the 'wrong models' in mind. Chinese philosophy on happiness.
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Happiness Index: Practical useful stuff
07 Jan 2011Get ahead of the Happiness Index. Do yourself some good with positive psychology. Watch Jane McGonigal speaking in London to see how it is done.
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Happiness is how we live, not what we get out of living
19 Jun 2010We only have to ask: what is the happy way to do this?
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Why do we stop using a gratitude diary when we are happy?
12 Jun 2010I've been wondering why on some days, we don't fill in a gratitude diary. I seem to avoid filling in a gratitude diary when I am very down, and very up, about external events. Why?
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If our words for happiness and sadness were different, we wouldn't feel muddled
04 Feb 2010I want to follow up Gaye’s comment “ I’ve not seen happiness or sadness as fixed points. My own experience…
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Happiness & sorrow are two sides of a coin; it’s in the maths
31 Jan 20104 puzzles of positive psychology I forgot to finish my series on the 4 puzzles of positive psychology, but I…
