A classic study of how happy medal winners were with their different coloured medals. It compared bronze winners with silver and found that the former were generally happier than the latter. This is because the silver winners tended to compare themselves with the winner and the bronze with the rest of the pack. And the noddy moral in this article is? Be happy with your lot. The question is, how much control do we actually have over our thoughts?
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The science of creativity
As Pablo Picasso once pointed out, all children are creative; the challenge is to remain creative into adulthood.
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