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How to Discover Where Your Happiness Lives
In this Mindful video, Elaine Smookler offers 3 things to consider when asking yourself what particular things bring you happiness.
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Two Lessons on Emotional Growth
This animation from School of Life describes the two types of emotional desires we seek, and how they have the power to determine the decisions we make.
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The Gift of a No Good, Very Bad Day
How experiencing hardships actually helps you succeed, as facing challenges allows you to learn, adapt, and become more resilient.
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Feeling Grateful for the Small Things
It's not always easy to notice the good — practicing gratitude can provide a small resting place for hope to flourish in our hectic lives.
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To Be Happy, Fail and Try Again
Actor Nick Offerman gave up perfection in favor of "halfway decent": leaning into the mistakes you make in pursuit of a discipline or craft that makes you happy.
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Where Joy Hides and How to Find It
In this TED Talk, author and designer Ingrid Fetell Lee explains how joy can be found anywhere you look — and why it's important you seek it out.
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The Happiness Debate
Scientists are weighing what it really means to be happy—and their findings aren’t so straightforward.
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Boost Happiness in Three Steps
Real life isn’t all rainbows and kittens, but real happiness is always available, even in tough times.
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How to Find Your Best Possible Self
Does imagining your future make you more happy—or more anxious? Taking just 15 minutes every day to write down what you want to do in the future can help you realize what's most important to you, and put you on a path to achieving you goals. [Podcast]
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Quieting Your Inner Critic
Are you too hard on yourself? Graduate student Steven Czifra spent most of his life behind bars. In this podcast, discover the research-tested practice that helped him quiet his inner critic.
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