Posts Tagged with ‘positive psychology’
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A career begins with an abiding preoccupation
25 Aug 2011Sleepwalking through life? Today the GSCE results came out in the UK. For American readers, GSCE is like graduating from…
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Living with meaning in a Zizek world
20 Aug 2011In my last two posts, I encouraged you to read Zizek in the original and gave you my take on…
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So 21st century: a Zizek moment
20 Aug 2011Zizek and the politics of our age Zizek, one of the most important thinkers of our age, tells us that…
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Not heard of ZIZEK? Why should you read ZIZEK?
20 Aug 2011I must say that a few months, I had not heard of ZIZEK. But we all should have heard of…
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Is the universe capable of having your city at its center?
01 Apr 2011Have 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?
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Poetry of the Week: Robin Yassin-Kassab
12 Mar 2011Responding kindly to a harsh world is tough to do. I found a line in "the road from DAMASCUS" that helps us keep our bearings.
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The Buried Life by Matthew Arnold: Positive Psychology
18 Jan 2011After 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.
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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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What is the smallest thing you can do to improve your life?
04 Nov 2010Act 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.
