The brilliance of psychologists The best skill that you will learn as a student of psychology is to “operationalise” fuzzy… Read more Struggling with generativity?
Tag: positive psychology
A career begins with an abiding preoccupation
Sleepwalking through life? Today the GSCE results came out in the UK. For American readers, GSCE is like graduating from… Read more A career begins with an abiding preoccupation
Living with meaning in a Zizek world
In my last two posts, I encouraged you to read Zizek in the original and gave you my take on… Read more Living with meaning in a Zizek world
So 21st century: a Zizek moment
Zizek and the politics of our age Zizek, one of the most important thinkers of our age, tells us that… Read more So 21st century: a Zizek moment
Not heard of ZIZEK? Why should you read ZIZEK?
I must say that a few months, I had not heard of ZIZEK. But we all should have heard of… Read more Not heard of ZIZEK? Why should you read ZIZEK?
Is the universe capable of having your city at its center?
Have we really imagined a universe with our own town or city as a centre. What kind of universe has Olney as its center? And what might I find in a universe that has New York, or Mumbai, or Beijing, or Lagos as its center?
How can we deny the lens of the place we live? Do we not deny ourselves?
Poetry of the Week: Robin Yassin-Kassab
Responding kindly to a harsh world is tough to do.
I found a line in “the road from DAMASCUS” that helps us keep our bearings.
The Buried Life by Matthew Arnold: Positive Psychology
After Barack Obama read part of The Buried Life at Richard Holbrock’s funeral, many of us are quickly looking it up.
Yes, Matthew Arnold did profess positive psychology ~ in Victorian Britain.
Happiness Index: Practical useful stuff
Get ahead of the Happiness Index. Do yourself some good with positive psychology.
Watch Jane McGonigal speaking in London to see how it is done.
What is the smallest thing you can do to improve your life?
Act out the good life right now in the life that you find yourself and you will forget the question of “What is the smallest thing we can do to improve our life?”
It’s not new age stuff. We psychologists are fearfully logical. This is how it works.