When you write down a list of “three good things” that happened that day, your brain will be forced to scan the last 24 hours for potential positives; small or large laughs, a feeling of accomplishment, a strengthened connection with family, or a glimmer of hope for the future.

In just five...

On every mental map after crisis or adversity, there are three mental paths:

1.  You keep circling around where you currently are.
2. You are led to further negative consequences.
3. You are led to a place where you are stronger and more capable than before.

Study af...

Based on Losada’s mathematical modeling, 2.9013 is the ratio of positive to negative interactions necessary to make a corporate team successful. 

It takes three positive comments, experiences, or expressions to fend off the languishing effects of one negative. 

Dip below this tipping ...

People with a "job" see work as a chore, and the paycheck is the reward. People with a "calling" view work as an end in itself. Their work is fulfilling, because they feel it contributes to the greater good, draws on their personal strengths, and gives them meaning and purpose. These are the peop...

The chief engine of happiness is positive emotion. The ten most common of these are: joy, gratitude, serenity, interest, hope, pride, amusement, inspiration, awe and love.

The tetris effect is named after the phenomenon experienced by tetris players who begin to see tetris-like patterns in every day life after playing for long periods of time.

With a negative tetris effect, we always spot the annoyances, stresses and hassles. With a positive tetris effect, we...

Imagine that you walk into a bank. There are 50 other people in the bank. A robber walks in and fires his weapon once. You are shot in the arm.

Is this fortunate or unfortunate?

• 70% say unfortunate: "how unlucky I happened to be there at that time and I was the one who was shot."...

Sustaining change is difficult to do with willpower alone, because willpower becomes more worn out the more we use it. A better way is to decrease the willpower required by decreasing the "activation energy" (time, choices, mental and physical effort) for habits we want to adopt, and alternativel...

The more we can align our tasks to a personal vision, the more likely we are to view work as a calling.

Write down the tasks at work that feel devoid of meaning and ask yourself "what is the purpose of this task?" If the answer still seems unimportant, ask again, and keep going until you ge...

Archimedes' quote about the fulcrum and the lever inspires us to move our own fulcrum (the mindset we have) and lengthen our levers (how much possibility and power we believe we have) to lift our world and maximise our potential.

Our brains ...

• Meditate
• Find Something to Look Forward To: think about or create a future reward. Often the most enjoyable part of an activity is the anticipation.
• Commit Concious Acts of Kindness: these must be intentional, not retrospecti...

If success causes happiness, then every employee who gets a promotion, every student who receives an acceptance letter, everyone who has ever accomplished a goal of any kind should be happy. But with each victory, our goalposts of success keep getting pushed further and further out.

The for...