Lately I’ve been asking myself questions about the relationship between happiness and motivation. For example, if I’m truly happy, then why is it that I feel motivated to change certain things about my life? Why do I strive to work out and become more fit, or find a girlfriend, or improve my financial situation? Is (more…)
Happy people share many of the same attitudes and beliefs about life. By integrating these beliefs in our own mindset, we can become happier and more successful too.
Why do we like watching movies that make us feel depressed? A recent study published at Ohio State University may have an answer. This research is one of the first attempts to take a scientific approach to explaining why people enjoy fictional tragedies.
The main idea behind Clay Johnson’s new book The Information Diet: A Case for Conscious Consumption is that we need to monitor the way we consume information in the same way we need to monitor what we eat and drink.
In today’s “information age,” we are constantly being bombarded with facts and opinions from television, radio, cellphones, and computers. In fact, according to Eric Schmidt, a software engineer and executive chairman at Google, every 48 hours there is more content being created on the internet than all the content that was created from the beginning of time to 2003.
That’s a lot of new information being created everyday! And this unprecedented growth of information has both its upsides and downsides.
Here’s how to create “compassionate love” for any person through a simple loving-kindness meditation. Buddhism meets neuroscience.