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What I Learned When I Nearly Died, and the Science Behind It
My junior year of college a friend and I were driving back from a ski trip during a Vermont snowstorm when I shifted gears and lost control. We swerved across several highway lanes into a ditch, flipped, and rolled three times before landing upside down. Somehow, despite the airbags not…
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You’re More Emotionally Intelligent on the Phone, Really
At workplaces and in families across the world, communication has gone online. We send endless emails; we video chat rather than travel across town to meet. Actually sitting down and interacting with someone in person can seem like a rare luxury. But as technology spreads, are we losing our ability…
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Stop Giving People More Stuff This Holiday – Do This Instead
The holiday season is filled with gifts—and empty of what people really want. We’re seeing a loneliness crisis in our society with 42.6 million adults in the U.S. suffering from it (and that’s not including people under 45)—representing a literal public health epidemic that leads to earlier death… but we…
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The Key to Becoming the Most Wonderful Version of Yourself
“Follow your heart.” “Go with your gut.” “Find yourself.” “Speak your truth.” We’ve all heard these phrases ad nauseam. Each one is supposed to encourage us to live authentically and in line with our own wishes, desires, values, and ideas. Yet we can also find it so very difficult and…
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Phubbing – The #1 Phone Habit to Drop for Better Relationships
Phubbing is the practice of snubbing others in favor of our mobile phones. We’ve all been there, as either a victim or perpetrator. We may no longer even notice when we’ve been phubbed (or are phubbing), it has become such a normal part of life. However, research is revealing the…
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Friendship at Work Can Be Tricky, But Also Life-Saving
How often have you had the following conversation at work? How are you? Good. You? Fine. It is a script we stick to even if we are dying inside. It’s hard to build real connections with your colleagues if you never get beyond superficial chit-chat. And yet people who have…
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6 Ways the Most Emotionally Intelligent People Handle Anger
Most of us don’t like confrontation, but it’s a fact of life that we can’t run from forever. We have to assert ourselves, our boundaries, and our needs — and others have to do the same with us. There are a million terrible ways of expressing your frustration. Here’s how…
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Why Your Mind is Better than Pills at Conquering Pain
Mind over matter: How true is this statement? More than you think. Stress has a bad reputation, but not all of it is bad. The “good” kind of stress gets you across the street quickly when you see an oncoming vehicle or can motivate you to work toward a deadline….
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Three Science-Based Reasons Vacations Boost Productivity
Americans generally believe that they need to “deserve” their vacations—that they should work hard, even push themselves, before they actually take a break. In researching my book, The Happiness Track, I came across these startling statistics: – Although Americans have fewer vacation days than people in any other country, they…
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The Worst Advice Parents Give Their Kids
Most parents want their kids to be successful in life , so we teach them attitudes we believe will help them achieve their goals. But as I learned while researching my book, many widely-held theories about what it takes to be successful are proving to be counterproductive: They may produce results…
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