5 Ways to Practice Happiness
When it comes to the quest for greater happiness, waiting and hoping are out. Learning and practicing are in. Here’s how to create your own happy reality — starting now.
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Embrace Intrinsic Motivation for Lasting Happiness
Jacob Sokol, author of Living on Purpose — An Uncommon Guide to Finding, Living, and Rocking Your Life’s Purpose, explores the differences in extrinsic and intrinsic motivation.
Why Your Mindset Matters
Carol S. Dweck, PhD, a renowned Stanford University professor, helps us understand why having the right mindset affects everything we do.
How to Age Wisely
Learn how to cultivate a more optimistic mindset so you can enjoy your life now — and well into the future.
Designing Happiness
Best-selling author Dan Buettner shares insights from the world’s happiest people that can boost the well-being of communities and their citizens.
A Real Pleasure
When it comes to creating the conditions for optimal health, we know that managing stress is important. But it turns out that dealing with our anxieties and negative emotional reactions is only half the battle. Discover why an ample supply of enjoyable, positive experiences is equally essential to your well-being — and how you can go about giving life’s pleasures the healthy emphasis they deserve.
C’mon, Get Happy! 10 Ways to Find More Happiness in Your Life
10 reasons to celebrate (and ways to get even happier in the process).
How Adversity Can Lead to Personal Growth
In the face of hardship, some people manage to find deeper meaning and purpose. Discover the factors of post-traumatic growth.
Toward a Meaningful Life
Psychologist Emily Esfahani Smith challenges our fixation on happiness and maintains that true satisfaction comes from creating a life of purpose.
5 Benefits of Curiosity
Discover how cultivating an inquiring mind can help you lead a happier, healthier life.
The Older, the Better
Wise advice on how to get healthier, happier and more attractive with age.
The Happiness Curve
Feeling gloomy in your middle years? Award-winning journalist Jonathan Rauch tells us why life gets better after 50.
Building Healthy Connections
How strengthening your personal relationships and hooking up with a healthy tribe may improve your health, happiness, and success.
The Better Good Life: An Essay on Personal Sustainability
Here how’s to apply the principles of sustainability to our health, happiness, and collective well-being.
Can Regenerative Agriculture Save Us?
Why nourishing topsoil, raising healthier animals, and growing more nutrient-dense crops and produce is critical to the future of food — and the planet.
12 Game-Changing Ideas About Health
12 big ideas that are shifting the way we think about health.
What Is Affluenza?
It’s an epidemic that’s sweeping the nation and infecting millions of American consumers with an insatiable desire for more. Have you got the bug?
21 Books to Read Over a Long Weekend
Looking for a good read this Labor Day weekend? Our staff weighs in on books they’ve read — or want to read — this season.
5 Reasons Why Failure is Essential for Personal Growth and Career Success
Most of us prefer to avoid messing up. But as it turns out, a certain amount of failure supports success. Here’s why — and how to make the most of your misfires.
Making Peace With Ourselves
There’s nothing wrong with pursuing happiness — as long as we don’t get too hung up on the details.
Blue Zones Founder Dan Buettner Shares 5 Tips for Longevity
Looking for the secrets to a longer and happier life? Read this.