How to Live a Happier Life
It was a brisk morning in January 2009. At a Metro station in Washington D.C., a man with a violin played six Bach pieces for approximately 45 minutes. About 2000 people walked past him during that time, most of them on their way to work. Ten minutes after he started playing, a three year old [...]
In my last post, I wrote about an alternative mindset for habit change, and I’ve been experimenting with it in my own life for the past two weeks. Most people think of habit change as this long process. I have suggested that instead of thinking about it this way, you just focus on the single [...]
When you want to change your life for the better, what are you most likely to do first? If you are like most people, you think about changing your habits. For example, if you want to get in shape, you think about building a habit of going to the gym regularly. This makes a lot [...]
It’s amazing how different cultures handle certain things in different ways. This past week through tomorrow is the most important week of the year in Israel. There are three holidays: Yom HaShoah (Holocaust memorial day) was last week, today has been Yom HaZikaron (the Israeli version of Memorial Day), and tomorrow is Yom Ha’atzmaut [...]
Most people think that living a healthy lifestyle is a challenge. When you look at the super fit and healthy people out there, it can seem almost impossible to get what they have. Six pack abs and a 100-year lifespan appear out of reach to “normal” individuals. But achieving those levels of health and fitness [...]
Your health is your life. Well, ok. That may have been a bit melodramatic, but… Your Health Is Your First Priority There are many subgenres in the personal development/self-improvement field, such as happiness, productivity, confidence, finances, independence, consciousness, and so on. It can be tough to decide where to begin. I know that I [...]
“If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.” ― Theodore Roosevelt “If you own this story you get to write the ending.” ― Brené Brown Ancient Romans understood the concept of personal responsibility. After a Roman arch was completed, the engineer who built [...]
I have been managing Feel Happiness for just over a year now, and I’m proud of what I have accomplished so far. From the beginning, my intention has been to help people live happier lives. This mission has served me well enough. However, I have recently begun to question myself. I know that I “like” [...]
Ahhhh, science. I love reading new scientific studies, particularly ones that are related to happiness and health. You can learn so much useful, actionable information by staying on top of the latest research. Unfortunately, it can be very easy to draw the wrong conclusions from new studies, particularly when you only read about the study [...]
How can you maximize the amount of happiness you experience over a lifetime? There is no single, correct answer to this question that would take into account all the variables that go into happiness, including aspects that are unique to you. But I am a math nerd. And as a math nerd, I feel obliged [...]
