How to Do Great Work
Opinion | The Most Common Graduation Advice Tends to Backfire
“Follow your passions”? Not so fast.
Ben Phillips on Twitter
“I don’t know who needs to hear this but Neil Diamond, who retired from performing five years ago because of Parkinsons, just had a Broadway show of him open and it at the opening night he did this”
Stop hurting your own feelings: Tips on quashing negative self-talk
Can't stop thinking mean thoughts about yourself? Researchers and psychologists share how to break the cycle.
The Magic of a Little Danger
To get happier, be brave, not reckless.
A Profession Is Not a Personality
Reducing yourself to any single characteristic, whether it be your title or your job performance, is a deeply damaging act.
Why You Should Take Time to Mourn During Career Transitions (Published 2018)
Grief is common when you leave a job you love.
Four Ways Nature Can Protect Your Well-Being During a Pandemic
People who spent more time in nature these past two years have been happier and less stressed.
Opinion | How Silence Became a Luxury Product
Our lives are loud — and too often it costs money to escape the noise.
Kate Bowler and Wajahat Ali — The Future of Hope — On Being with Krista Tippett
An irreverent conversation about hope between journalist Wajahat Ali and theologian Kate Bowler. They speak to this moment we’re in through the friendship they found on the edge of life and death that is cancer — Wajahat through his young daughter; and Kate with a stage 4 diagnosis at the age of 35 that she’s chronicled in a beloved memoir, Everything Happens for a Reason (And Other Lies I’ve Loved). Their conversation is rich with practical wisdom for facing uncertainty and mortality, losses we did not foresee, and new beginnings we would not have chosen. This is the first in a new series, The Future of Hope — a beautiful array of voices, former guests on this show, having the conversations they want to be hearing in this time.
Forgetful, confused and a bit cranky? Here are some scientifically proven ways to lift your lockdown mood
Studies show prolonged isolation takes a toll on our memory and attention. Fortunately, there are small steps you can take to mitigate lockdown brain
For “The Walking Dead’s” Scott Gimple, a story needs sadness to make the happiness real
Scott Gimple joins Kai Ryssdal for this installment of "Corner Office" from Marketplace.
Dying for a better life: South Koreans fake their funerals for life lessons
A South Korean service is offering free funerals - but only to the living.
Should Work Be Passion, or Duty?
Too many of us expect our jobs to give meaning to our lives. There is a better way.
The Mystery of the Miserable Employees: How to Win in the Winner-Take-All Economy
The business unit was doing well, but the employees were sad. Could data offer a clue?
Your Professional Decline Is Coming (Much) Sooner Than You Think
Here’s how to make the most of it.
This Study Reveals The 5 Biggest Regrets People Have Before They Die
Do you have any regrets? Most people do. But it appears our regrets gain a lot of weight as we approach the end of our lives.
A Nobel Prize-winning psychologist says most people don’t really want to be happy
People are more likely to choose satisfaction—the long-term feeling that comes with achieving your goals.
Not My Circus, Not My Monkeys
The downfalls of trying to control what is not ours to control.
Here Is What Jeff Bezos and Hospice Patients Say You Will Regret Most in Life
We all have regrets--opportunities we've missed and things we wish we'd done differently. What if we knew now what our biggest regrets would be and had the chance to avoid them? In a way, we do.
The new Labor Day | Seth's Blog
One day a year isn’t much to spend honoring the folks that built everything. One day a year for the more than twenty that died from the heights and in the caissons as they built the Brooklyn …
This Is How To Make Your Life Awesome: 6 Secrets From Research - Barking Up The Wrong Tree
The only way to really know how to make your life awesome would be to follow a lot of people for their entire lives and see what works. Luckily somebody did...
The Power of Positive People - The New York Times
Are your friendships giving you a boost or bringing you down?
True happiness isn't about being happy all the time
Being happy involves not shying away from pain, misery or distress.
Using an Alarm Clock Has Changed My Life in 2018—Here’s Why - Verily
Don’t hit snooze on this game changer.
Seth's Blog: Ignore sunk clowns
(1) Joy is the Leading Indicator | LinkedIn
How do you know when trouble is on the horizon in your organization? What are the tell-tale signs, the canaries in the coal mine, if you will? When I was a young management consultant, conventional wisdom said that a leading indicator was something easily measurable like rising inventory or declini
You’ll Never Be Famous — And That’s O.K. - The New York Times
Social media make it seem as if meaningful lives are the extraordinary and attention-grabbing ones. That’s rarely the case.
Pinkcast 2.3: The power of an "emotional first aid kit" | Daniel H. Pink
Pinkcasts: short, informal, low-fi videos offering tips, recommendations, or whatever happens to be on my mind. Sent on the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays of every month.
A 69-year-old monk who scientists call the 'world's happiest man' says the secret to being happy takes just 15 minutes a day | The Independent