The Pursuit of Happiness
No, I’m not blogging about the 2006 film, satisfyingly adequate as it was. I’m talking about positive psychology, the academic movement that is turning traditional therapy – where else? – on its head. Here are two new recent tid-bits from my quest to understand, evaluate and apply this radical new thinking. Enjoy! First off, there was an excellent discussion on...
Read MoreCurry and The Three Degrees (Of Happiness)
I had a mini-epiphany the other day. This happens to me recurrently, especially after eating my wife’s curry. I take it as yet another proof of the mind-body linkage. What happens is that there are two bits of information floating around in my brain that suddenly decide they are related. As a consequence, I go Eureka! This time it has to do with the thought of two seemingly different...
Read MoreFormulas For Success and Happiness
This is ten percent luck, twenty percent skill - Fifteen percent concentrated power of will - Five percent pleasure, fifty percent pain - And a hundred percent reason to remember the name! So says the gang from Fort Minor in their high-motivational song Remember The Name, background music to many a martial movie trailer from Fighting to the new Karate Kid. But are their percentages...
Read MoreWhat Do Men Want? #2
In the first blog in this series I mentioned that I’m delivering (for the second time) a 1-day course in Queen’s University called What Men Want: How To Manage the Men in Your Life. Although this is a course about men for women, it got me thinking about what it is – if anything – that all men might want. Here are some suggestions. Author John Eldredge has a very frank...
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